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Complete agreement.

A lazer focus on repeal efforts of the Seventeenth Amendment should not necessarily be cloaked in efforts to activate a Constitutional Convention.

Just saying. Good article reborn.

First off, the Feds have gathered so much power to themselves that there is little left for the States to retain. Much of what the Feds took is now enshrined in the Constitution by way of various penumbras. There is little hope of getting it back.

Second, there are even conservatives (especially freemarketeer types) who want things to be federalized. For example, they would like insurance companies to be able to sell their products nationwide for efficiency purposes. Why not make insurance companies too big to fail along with all the nationwide banks?

Third, the difference between states is vastly surpassed by the difference within states, i.e. rural vs. urban. If the 17th were repealed then you can guarantee that the urbanites will go out of their way to make sure that their governors and legislatures are run by politicians with the urbanite's interests as top priorities.

A bigger scandal occurred when the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn't control how their legislators were selected. No longer could they have a mirror of the federal system with one body based on population and one based on regional interests. Now every state that still has a bicameral legislature is just showing how stupid they are.