The 17th Amendment was the cornerstone to the Progressive agenda.
The 16th, 17th, & 18th Amendments were the Progressive Trifecta.
Seems something we read in high school indicated Progressives believed this representative republic experiment, a nation of laws with men limited by a Constitution would end shortly after the loss of recreational alcohol consumption. And it nearly did. Execept Progressives never counted on the resourcefullness of a 21st Amendment repealing their 18th. Too bad the 21st only repealed the 18th Amendment.
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OLA
The 16th, 17th, & 18th Amendments were the Progressive Trifecta.
Seems something we read in high school indicated Progressives believed this representative republic experiment, a nation of laws with men limited by a Constitution would end shortly after the loss of recreational alcohol consumption. And it nearly did. Execept Progressives never counted on the resourcefullness of a 21st Amendment repealing their 18th. Too bad the 21st only repealed the 18th Amendment.
The 14th is the turning point. It created, out of whole cloth, an imaginary government devoid of rights, and under which all interpretations of all law (including Amendments) were to be made from the principle of total government superiority, and zero citizen sovereignty - and absolute reversal of the original Constitution.