That’s why an Article V might be so effective. It pits state elites: state politicians, state bureaucrats, and powerful state business interests who would gain against their federal brethren. I think the local guys would win. We’d get rid of the 17th Amendment and states would take back a lot of power currently in the Feds hands.
I’m in!
And you’re 100 trillion (just to throw a random number out there) percent correct about the 17th Amendment. By far and away it is the most damaging thing the statists (h/t Mark Levin) have ever done to the US. In a lot of ways, it’s worse than the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve combined.
1913—The year liberty was diagnosed with the progressivik cancer