Posted on 08/28/2022 11:01:14 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
There have been many details exposed over the last two years about how our government at all levels is not what we thought it was, and none of what we're hearing bodes well for this republic.
Let's focus on one issue: the U.S. Senate. It's clearer than it has ever been that it's just a collection of elected officials, behaving as if they're independent actors with no restraint. It's as if they have no allegiance to anyone. The citizens of their respective states matter not, except once every six years, when they play the "how can I fool them again" game. They're a law unto themselves. Oh, and the welfare of their respective states? They couldn't care less.
How did this come about? The 17th Amendment.
Nineteen thirteen was a terrible year for our republic. It delivered a double–constitutional body blow: first, imposing a federal income tax — the 16th Amendment — and then the general election of U.S. senators — the 17th Amendment.
Prior to the 17th Amendment, state legislatures appointed senators. Each state had its own process for this. The senators were the gating mechanism against a House of Representatives that had a penchant toward foolishness. Given the fruitcakes we see there today, it's clear the Founding Fathers knew what they were doing.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bump for later reading. I always learn so much from your posts.
After the passage of the 17th amendment, ask yourself this:
“What purpose does the U.S. Senate serve?”
“Why does it even exist?”
The Senate’s foundation doesn’t support its purpose.
Figures YOU would have a problem with the obvious disaster the 17th amendment has been. Wow. New low.
The 17th amendment has been a disaster. Those denying it look like fools.
Oh stop it already. The 17th is a disaster and you know it..
It ias amazing how clueless some Freepers really are. The 17th is a disaster in progress.
One person put it better than anyone.
It’s a club and you/we ain’t in it.
It was a disaster before. You want politicians choosing your elected Senators for you ? I certainly don’t. You’re not going to get statesmen again with the hacks in the legislatures picking them, you’ll get more hacks.
One House is apportioned by population. The other gives each state equal representation. One answers to rural and agricultural interests, and the other to urban interests. There’s your logic. Senators usuallly have to answer to a larger electorate than representatives. Also, it’s easier for nutjobs to become representatives than senators.
Check out the link in #28.
Before the 17th., I thought the Governor of the state had the power the recall a Senator at any time.. Am I wrong about that.?
Very good.!! Thanks for that... :)
No, there was never a power of recall. A Governor could only appoint a Senator in case of a vacancy via resignation or death, and then the legislature would elect a new Senator for the remainder of the term.
Yes, absolutely I do. Most people don't even know the names of their state rep or state senator. This is how little the state ( vs the fed ) means to them. If the 17th is repealed you better damn well believe that would change. A change for the better.
It's like how we got cursed out here a few years ago by the Liz Cheney groupies who were pimping her carpetbagging into Wyoming so they could get a "fighter" in Congress.
Well... they CERTAINLY got one!
And NOW they see just "good" things were after daddy's little girl got to be a "fighter" in Washington D.C.!
I wouldn’t. Both my legislators don’t have a collective IQ that adds up to my shoe size, and I have big feet.
They may now. Repeal the 17th and a higher caliber person runs for state office.
No, it won’t. I’m in a (Black) Voter Rights Act district in the State Senate and a White moonbat State House district.
What you want to happen in expecting better people to serve isn’t going to happen, not with a 17th repeal. What it would require would be something exceptionally dramatic, and that would mean returning our nation to being a Republic.
Right now, “Democracy” has failed us by allowing too many people to vote that have no business doing so. Raising the voting age dramatically to at least 30, disallowing those working for their government & gov’t contractors and their families/dependents to vote, disallowing those receiving any government payments, welfare, and the like from voting. Also even disallowing naturalized citizens from voting until they’ve been citizens for at least a decade. You literally have to have skin in the game to have the franchise.
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