[ProgressingAmerica]

The same formula that progressives followed in 1900 to erase the states is the formula that they use now to erase nations. Once we reach the point of having humans on multiple planets and progressives seek an even bigger intergalactic government, they will use this formula to erase worlds. (Yes, I'm saying globalism is only transitory for progressives just as nationalism was only transitory for progressives)

"squabbling contemptible commonwealths" becomes "squabbling contemptible nations" becomes "squabbling contemptible globes".

[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: Theodore Roosevelt was a staunch and fierce opponent of states' rights.

[Fiddlstix]

[rktman]

Hey now. Pedo joe already told us that NO AMENDMENT is absolute so........................

[Little Ray]

I would say mobility tends weaken commitment to states.
I was born in NC, and have lived in SC, GA, FL, TX, and AR (also Germany). To which state should I be loyal?

[Rusty0604]

Very good article, thanks for posting.

[monkeyshine]

Yeah, more or less what I believe. It was a power grab, and it moved power away from the people (who vote for their state legislatures, thus accountable to the people for whom they selected as Senator) to the political parties. From there it evolved to fundraising and party machines and now mass advertising and social media.

Party politics is eating away at the fabric of American life for all Americans. George Washington warned us about it. But worse of all, it’s all just a facade to cover for corruption.

[Repeal The 17th]

74 page pdf file dissertation...

Ulysses at the Mast:
Democracy, Federalism, and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment
Jay S. Bybee, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William S. Boyd School of Law - 1997
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https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1365&context=facpub

[FLT-bird]

Leftists love centralized power. The only thing capable of checking the power of the federal government is the states. Thus Leftists hate state’s rights.

It has always been thus.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Progressives hate the states, these “squabbling contemptible commonwealths” to use the words of a former United States President.

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/new-nationalism-speech/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrpB-tsUdwo

And you know the other thing about this same speech, I just love it in the morning being called a “reactionary”. Isn’t that great? Now who runs around labeling everybody they don’t like as reactionaries. We all know.

As to the historians, it has been my experience that the 17th (if any president is ever even named, usually the story just starts with ratification and no background at all) gets associated to Wilson even though well over 30 of the needed 37 states had already ratified by the time he was sworn in. The direct election of senators was brought to the national stage in the 1912 presidential election, but to my knowledge it wasn’t by Wilson.