The key is seeing that the future of our country as a free and thriving America is putting the federal government under the constitutional Rule of Law. If Trump 1) see that and 2) dedicates himself to seeing that happen, AND 3) if sooner or later the STATES understand their sovereign role under the Constitution, then we are truly on our way to a rebirth of freedom in America.
3) if sooner or later the STATES understand their sovereign role under the Constitution, then we are truly on our way to a rebirth of freedom in America.
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You are, IMHO, most emphatically correct!
We need to abolish the 17th amendment! We need to once more somehow restore the input and voice that the Sovereign States were intended to have.
The amendment now calls for election of Senators by the people. It originally was deeply thought through by the Founders as being necessary to elect them by the State Legislatures. There were some problems with that, so it was somewhat easy for the power elite to get Amendment 17 changed to direct election, rather than corrected so that abuses at the state level could not be as egregious. But it has caused real damage to our system for us to have direct election.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxvii