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The 17th Amendment and Republican Freedom
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I don’t think it matters that it took a year to get some engaged in the problems and intended consequences of the unconstitutional in principle seventeenth amendment. The fact that it changed the most important part of the Founder’s vision doesn’t seem to get much traction, but any interest in it’s dangers I appreciate.
The part of the amendment that gets my attention is those proposing it failed to take into account the term limits imposed on “REPRESEMTATIVES” by the Founding Fathers of two years, and allowed the six year term for a Senator chosen by State Legislatures to remain as a fixture. Categorically making the seventeenth amendment unconstitutional before it was ever ratified.
My answer to the year old thread you linked.
To: Jacquerie
I don’t think it matters that it took a year to get some engaged in the problems and intended consequences of the unconstitutional in principle seventeenth amendment. The fact that it changed the most important part of the Founder’s vision encapsulated in the tenth amendment doesn’t seem to get much traction, but any interest in it’s dangers I appreciate.
The part of the amendment that gets my attention is those proposing it failed to take into account the term limits imposed on “REPRESEMTATIVES” by the Founding Fathers of two years, and allowed the six year term for a Senator chosen by State Legislatures to remain as a fixture. Categorically making the seventeenth amendment unconstitutional before it was ever ratified.
9 posted on Friday, April 25, 2014 7:23:51 AM by wita