[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[geologist]

interesting ...

[PubliusMM]

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[ClearCase_guy]

The 17th Amendment was a terrible thing. I’d love to see it go. But it would take a revolution.

[DaGman]

Bottom line... the 17th exists, it is part of the constitution and has been valid and followed for many years now. Nothing can change that except another amendment to repeal it.

[Congressman Billybob]

This entire argument falls on the doctrine of laches. The author is right that the 17th Amendment radically changed the Constitution in the ways described. But it is too late. Just as it is too late to argue that the members of the Electoral College should have personal discretion in voting for President and Vice President.

Congressman Billybob

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[BlueNgold]

OK, call me silly, but what does this article have to do with anything current?

Is there some issue where this argument would come into play, or is it just a general diatribe?

[Marmolade]

bfl

[Pontiac]

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[mo]

magic bullet nonsense....it stays around only as long as We the People decide it will. When enough of us get up off our sofas, turn of the TV, step away from the keyboard ..and go organize out state legislatures in 34 states to repeal it...it will happpen.

[yazoo]

“except as to the PLACES of chusing Senators.””

I think the founders needed to use their spell checkers.

[A. Patriot]

IMHO, this single ammendment has ruined our system of gevernment more than just about anything else. It was “Progressives” who had advocated this ammendment when the Federal Government touched the average citizens’ lives very little.

We need to repeal this. Right now, there is nobody to represent the interest of the States in the U.S. Congress. State governments are forced to hire lobbiest to line up with all the special interests to get thier interests heard. This is a discrace.

Here is a great site on the subject:
http://www.restorefederalism.org/?gclid=CKLGwtrJqKYCFY4J2godF2IpoA