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” It’s my understanding that the Speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a sitting Congressman.”
Yet the Speaker is 3rd in line. Things that make you go - HHhmmm..

It sounds weird until you consider the amendment that made Senators elected by the people, instead of the states.

With the Vice President as Senate ‘leader’, the states then had control of who succeeded the President, and after that the people, with the house.

>> It’s my understanding that the Speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a sitting Congressman.
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> Yet the Speaker is 3rd in line. Things that make you go - HHhmmm..
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It sounds weird until you consider the amendment that made Senators elected by the people, instead of the states.
With the Vice President as Senate ‘leader’, the states then had control of who succeeded the President, and after that the people, with the house.

Oh, good catch! I never realized that.
The 17th Amendment is probably in the top three unrepealed bad amendments for screwing the country up, the other two are the 14th and 16th; respectively they did the following: destroyed representation of the States in the federal government, destroyed state-sovereignty by opening the gateway to the judicial tyranny that is 'incorporation' & opened anchor-baby issues & forbids the legitimacy of the government's debt from being questioned, and allowed the progressive income tax (arguably re-instituting slavery, but instead of private slave-holders everyone's master is the federal government).