Posted on 11/08/2014 3:44:04 AM PST by Jerrybob
Excellent and brilliant.
“Only the States are powerful enough to stop this federal government from enforcing that progressive, utopian idea: a country where anything that is not forbidden is mandatory.”
Yes he nails it
Beautiful---and remember this, Americans--as we clean up the mountains of detritus left by these Chicago criminals----only conservatives were savvy enough to know what we were getting when these poseurs squatted in our WH.
He produced an informative, entertaining five minute vid on repeal of the 17th amendment.
The 18th was repealed, so can the 17th and Obamacare.
Return the senate to its rightful owners, the states.
Bill Whittle. One of the best and brightest conservative minds around today, in my opinion; also very quiet and understated. I really like that.
See my tag.
Has anyone reached out to the RGA, ALEC or even the NCSL?
Yesterday I checked out the Assembly of States, and googled its spark, David Long of the Indiana senate. The planned third meeting for next month is apparently canceled.
About five weeks ago Mark Levin mentioned and named a team he gathered for the purpose of getting the movement going again. Randy Barnett, whom I deeply respect, and I think Michael Farris from Patrick Henry College are among them. I don't recall anything from Levin since.
Its disappointing, but history doesn't travel in a straight line, so I am hopeful.
It is the same reason the war between the states was fought, states rights.
The whittling away at the powers reserved by the states is the biggest danger we face.
He is right- a state is sovereign and is allowed to decide virtually everything. If it wants to educate in a certain way or treat abortions one way, or increase taxes, it is allowed to.
People who do not want this are free to move to anot her state, e.g. onerous taxes in Massachusetts can be avoided by moving to Texas.
There is no relief if the feds dictate. That is the power libs want and need to survive.
Don’t stop with just repealing the 17th amendment, we need to start dividing electoral votes for POTUS by congressional district. No more winner take all!
Michigan now has the veto proof Republican majority in both houses of the state legislature to do exactly that.
We need to pressure them to do it!
Kill the 17th, then start the paring down, starting with killing or modifying Civil Service so that the bureaucracy is not set in concrete.
Then start killing the Departments-EPA, DOE, DOE, etc. back to the original 4.
ALEC doesn’t have to agree with you completely, but my understanding is they are pretty conservative. Remember that for this to succeed you need to connect with the natural self-interest of a variety of disparate groups. It’s the way of the Founders and it’s the only way.
I honestly don’t believe the vast majority of state legislators are aware of their vast power under Article V.
When I got with my state assemblyman last year for an hour, it was clear from his questions that at best, he was quite unfamiliar with it.
I’d start by sending them and their chief of staffs that Bill Whittle video. Do you have any position papers on this you could send?
This should be a FReeper project. Talking to local reps and senators and getting them to at least know about it. How about letters to the editor?
As for position papers, they consist entirely of vanity posts to FR over the last year and a half.
I agree this could/should be a Freeper Project. Do you have any specifics in mind?
Letter to my FL Legislator. I think it still reads pretty well.
NOTHING in this Amendment prevents the STATE LEGISLATURES from Electing Senators. It just says “elected by the people thereof” well didn’t the People Thereof Elect the Legislators?? And cannot the People Thereof entrust this job to the Legislators??
What would Washington do if a State Legislature just sent 2 Senators they ELECTED at the behest of “the people thereof”?
Since we don’t have any Governors or State Legislatures with the balls to stand up and just Send 2 Senators that were duly elected by the Legislators, we will never find out.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution
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