[screaming eagle2]

why repeal the seventeenth amendment? The other ideas are great

[screaming eagle2]

ok,after looking at stuff online,I get it now,however a lot of people who don’t understand the reasoning and liberals won’t go for it

[OneWingedShark]

Repealing the 17th Amendment would take the appointment of Senators from the “popular vote” and place it back into the States. {That way in Congress the People themselves are represented by Representatives & States are represented by Senators.}

[Fiddlstix]

why repeal the seventeenth amendment? The other ideas are great

Perhaps this will help you understand......

[SlaveNoMore]

why repeal the seventeenth amendment?

Do you know what the 17th Amendment did?

Instead of the state legislatures maintaining the reins of the states' senators, the 17th Amendment introduced the popular election of the senators.

Now do you understand why senators don't give a rip about what you and the other underling subjects think? The 17th Amendment allows special interests to "induce" the votes of senators and make contributions to their re-election campaigns to continue the facade of "public service."

I find it ironic that the 17th Amendment was passed at the same time as the 16th Amendment (taxation)in 1913. America has been on a downward trend ever since.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

why repeal the seventeenth amendment?

The 17th Amendment allowed the destruction of every last vestige and pretense of constituytional federalism left after the Civil War and was a prerequisite for passage and maintenance of the New Deal.