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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“Mark Levin suggested repealing the 17th Amendment, but that idea doesn’t seem to be exciting enough to take off. Not to worry, there’s more than one way to skin a central-power cat. “

With the rising tide of Republican State Senates and Governors the Article 5 crowd should be pushing for that State’s Convention so long as they are focused specifically on the 17th and nothing but the 17th.


37 posted on 11/11/2014 10:05:49 AM PST by Usagi_yo (Criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.)
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To: Usagi_yo
Indeed. The 17th consolidated a previously federal government into a tight group of statists in Rome-on-the-Potomac.

“Any constitution which trusts more than it needs to any man, or body of men, has a terrible flaw in it, and is big with the seeds of its own destruction.” No. 40 of Cato's Letter, 1721.

60 posted on 11/12/2014 7:07:31 AM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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