Posted on 11/04/2018 4:04:57 AM PST by Jacquerie
LOL!
I’m confident the GOP will win in a blowout. If this happens, I am positive that PDJT will know what to do with his mandate. First, ruthlessly exercise his command of the executive branch to drain the swamp.
If our President slows a bit they will be on him like a pack of jackals. So far he has confused them with action they haven’t seen for decades. Rock on, Donald Trump!
Amen Brother!
National Constitution Center.com
(SNIP) The one instance of an amendment appeal, the 21st Amendment, shows how this unusual process works. The 18th Amendment ratified in 1919 prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” nationwide under most circumstances. By the early 1930s, Prohibition had become unpopular and Congress passed the 21st Amendment, with its repeal provision, in February 1933 just before Franklin Roosevelt became President. The amendment proposed for ratification included language never used before but permitted under Article V: state conventions (and not state legislatures) would be called for ratification votes, out of fear the temperance lobby would influence state lawmakers.
When Utah became the 36th state to approve the amendment in December 1933, the ratified 21st Amendment not only repealed the broad prohibition on alcohol, it also added language to the Constitution that states had the ability to define alcohol laws within their borders.
The most-recent amendment added to the Constitution was the 27th Amendment in 1992, which prevented Congress from changing its own compensation during a term in progress; that amendment had first been proposed in 1789 but wasn’t ratified as part of the Bill of Rights. Six amendments have been approved by Congress but never fully ratified by the states, with the District of Columbia Voting Rights amendment that last one that failed to get approval in 1985.
Scott Bomboy is the editor in chief of the National Constitution Center.
What we need is people who aren’t in DC for 50+ years. We need term limits - 6 years as a representative (3 terms) and a break before running for Senate (2 terms 12 years). And then, before running for president take a break, leave DC get a job in your home state.
The 17th Amendment encouraged multiple senatorial terms. State legislatures abandoned senatorial elections to party machines. Party bosses, not legislative compromise, selected senatorial candidates. Pre-17A, the ambitions of state legislators helped curb multiple terms in the senate. Legislators had more natural ambition to the office and thus more incentive to watch and replace senators.8 The 17A worked against rotation or tenure limits because the elective body (the people) had less ambition to the office it controlled.
In the pre-modern Congress, senators regularly came and went. There were few senior members as the typically unstable state party situation often made senatorial reelection difficult.9
Percentage of Senators with >16 Year’s Tenure.10
1819 – 1821: 1%
1915- 1917: 5%
1995-1996: 14%
2017-2019: 20%
Sending “better” men and women to a popularly derived senate cannot possibly correct its inherent deficiencies. The Framers got it right. If we are to arrest and reverse our occasionally slow, yet often rapid slide into despotism, we must restore the Framers’ keystone to free government. All good things are possible with, and impossible without, repeal of the 17th Amendment.
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