Posted on 04/08/2013 4:57:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie
I feel like celebrating the fact that a small handful of career politicians can’t choose Senators anymore.
The 17th Amendment not only is evil but utterly illogical.as well. Its repeal is an essential step toward restoring America as envisioned by its Founding Fathers.
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Completely agree direct elections for senators doomed us.
Yes. There is no guarantee of restoration with repeal, but without it, I don’t have any hope.
“I feel like celebrating the fact that a small handful of career politicians can’t choose Senators anymore.”
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I understand your inclination but after much contemplation I am convinced there is nothing in the 17th amendment that merits celebration.
Agreed! Completely there.
Excellent treatise. Completely agree. The 17th needs to be repealed to get us back to a functional Constitutonal Republic as originally designed.
For years I have thought that the key to restoring balance to the Constitution was repealing the 17th Amendment.
1913 is a year that will live in U.S. History infamy. First the 16th Amendment allowing congress to tax incomes “without regard to any census or enumeration” and then the 17th which in effect destroyed federalism. Not to mention that Woodrow Wilson was installed as POTUS ushering in the Progressive Era that hit it’s zenith with FDR. The rest is just window dressing. The Republic essentially died in 1913.
Agree 100%
It’s time to call an article V convention. We must do this now before its too late. If the libs take Texas its game over. Repeal the 17th. Strike the interstate commerce clause completely. Clarify the 2nd amendment. Etc.
in general restore our republic and return freedom and liberty.
Now we need Mark Levin to get with the program and quit wasting time worrying about the next election or any other reforms from inside Washington. It’s time for the states and the people to restore liberty.
Tomorrow I’m going to pass these posts to my FL State assemblyman and Senator. Think about doing the same in your home State. Twenty-six (or was it 28?) States challenged Obamacare. Resistance is in the air.
Yes, the media, rats and rinos will come down hard on an amendment to repeal the 17th. So what? Gee, will they start to call us names? When was the last time we set the terms of the debate? The last consistent time was during the Ronald Reagan era. Today we get an occasional reprieve from, for instance, Senators Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. In the course of defending this amendment, we would educate a couple generations of Americans purposely kept ignorant of the magnificent bequest of our ancestors, the Constitution. This is an idea that conservatives should flock to.
Imagine a Senate composed of people who don’t give a rip what the left-media say about them. Imagine a Senate immune from popularity polls and whatever spews daily from Obama or Chrissy Mathews. Imagine a Senate that flips the bird to a President who even considers anti-10th Amendment radicals to the federal bench. Would such a Senate put up with an EPA or HHS that pushes their States around?
I cannot tell you how much I agree with this.
-PJ
To be fair, the old system wasn’t a gem, either.
Contemplate on RINO David Dewhurst, the GOP primary voters rejected him in favor of conservative Ted Cruz but Dewhurst would be the US Senator for Texas right now if the legislature got to choose. You see as LT Governor he was President of the State Senate, and 18 of the 19 Republican Senators endorsed him. Do you get it? This is no good.
People who want to repeal this amendment (which by the way is not ever gonna happen, it’s just a waste of time that makes conservatives look bad) aren’t looking at the real world. In the real world state legislators are full of POLITICIANS that can’t be trusted. Letting them pick Senators is a recipe for corruption and less conservative Senators overall.
Nah, the 16th amendment COULDN'T have come first.
That would mean the 16th was passed by those wonderful, statesmen-like giants of the Senate who were appointed by state legislators and believed in representing state interests and upholding federalism. NO WAY would such politicians pass such sweeping draconian federal legislation like an national income tax. If they did, it would mean the anti-17th crowd is wrong that state legislative appointed politicians will "save our Republic"
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