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To: BuckeyeTexan

Scalia stated that it would be heard if I can get 4 people to hear it. He repeated, you need four for the argument. I got a feeling that he was saying that one of these 4 that call themselves Constitutionalists, went to the other side. He did not say that it is a political question, he did not say that it is for the legislature to decide. For example, right after me another attorney has asked him about his case of taxing some Internet commerce and right away Scalia told him that he should address it with the legislature. He did not say it to me. He did not say that quo warranto is antiquated or not appropriate, no, just get 4. Right after that he went into the issue of the 17th amendment. He stated that today the Congress and the Senate are not accountable to the states and can do whatever they please. He stated, that when the rules of the game were changed in 1913, when the senators were no longer chosen by the state legislature, but rather elected, therefor they are not accountable to the states, cannot be recalled by the state and that is why there is such an overreaching power by the federal government. The way I understood it, is that maybe the 17th amendment needs to be repealed or maybe we should check our voting machines, since the Sequoia software in our voting machines is owned by the communist Hugo Chavez. of Venezuela.


4 posted on 03/10/2009 10:34:40 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: netmilsmom
"The way I understood it, is that maybe the 17th amendment needs to be repealed"
I have been saying this for 15 years....the 17th amendment is what has cost the states their rights and has single handedly led to the power grab by the federal government
5 posted on 03/10/2009 10:37:33 AM PDT by joe fonebone (When you ask God for help, sometimes he sends the Marines.)
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