Posted on 09/12/2015 8:18:36 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Our governing system no longer serves its intended purpose, that being “to secure the blessings of liberty.”
In fact, any casual read of the Constitution reveals our government’s wholesale departure from the genius of the Founders. Congress sloughs off or re-assigns its responsibility to craft legislation, determine spending, ratify treaties, oversee the executive branch and regulate the judicial.
No longer content with rewriting statutes, SCOTUS increasingly elevates itself above God; its Obergefell v. Hodges ruling which assigned to homosexuals the fundamental right of marriage, is only the latest outrage among many.
The decisions of Executive branch agencies mirror the demands of one man, Barack Obama, rather than the legislative determination of Congress as it reflects the will of the American people.
In response to these increasingly disturbing failings of the Federal Government, there is a small but growing minority of Americans who believe armed revolution must be our fate.
Yet there is a potentially peaceful way to reverse our slide into tyranny.
First, get out of the mindset that one person, the president—any president–can save us. We have slipped from free, limited government precisely because power has become concentrated in the executive and judicial branches.
The solution is to undo this concentration of power by diffusing it once again across fifty member republics–the states.
With these words: “The 17th Amendment is hereby repealed,” the Framers’ careful, vertical separation of powers would be restored. For rather than the current body of 100, power-hungry senators responsible to nothing but their own re-election, the corporate interests of fifty other governments—those of the states–would once again have a voice in the larger republic. Repeal the 17th Amendment and senators would again be elected by state legislators...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
It’s a start.
Yup. No more pix of Mad Johnny prancing around Syria. The senators from Arizona would actually have to represent the state.
While we’re at it...repeal the 16th and leave the funding of the fedgov to the states as well. None of this crap about bills coming to our houses from D.C.
obama treats the people like his unlearned children and only obama knows what is best. He rules by decree and the stroke of his pen, paying no mind to what his unlearned children want. He’s the parent and he can do whatever he chooses. The congress slaves will obey him.
He has had the easiest dictatorship ... and in the land where we are supposed to be FREE.
Does anyone seriously think that Congress is going to vote to repeal the 17th Amendment and put themselves out of a cushy job? Not in this lifetime.
The 17 Amendment was a travesty.
No, not at all...just merely commenting that it would be a start.
Just a little information:
Due to the controversy over the impact of the Seventeenth Amendment, there has been advocacy for both reform and repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment.
With the commencement of the Obama Administration in 2009, four sitting Democratic senators left the Senate for executive branch positions: Barack Obama (President), Joe Biden (Vice President), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Secretary of State), and Ken Salazar (Secretary of the Interior). Controversies developed about the successor appointments made by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and New York Governor David Paterson.
This created interest in abolishing Senate appointment by the governor.[57] Accordingly, Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin[58] and Representative David Dreier of California proposed an amendment to remove this power;
Senators John McCain and Dick Durbin became co-sponsors, as did Representative John Conyers.[57] The Tea Party movement has been arguing for repealing the Seventeenth Amendment entirely, claiming that it would protect states’ rights and reduce the power of the federal government.[59]
Be careful what you wish for. Look at California. The state is Democratic from now on soon to be under the governance of Mexico. Check Illinois, New York, Massachusetts etc. etc. They are and will be Democratic leftist. By changing the mode of election from popular vote to legislative vote one would change nothing in the leftist states.
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Excellent!
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