[rlmorel]

I agree 100% with your view on the 17th Amendment.

One of the biggest problems I see is an out of control monstrosity of a federal government, and states are helpless against the extortion practiced by the dissemination of the federal highway funds and other such things.

It is impossible for states to have any independence when that kind of money is being thrown around.

We need to find a way to get more power into the hands of the states. We need to abolish things like the Department of Education and let states and local governments determine the best way to deal with things like that.

[Jacquerie]

Once the states return, all things are possible.

Never again would anti-10th amendment lawyers have the chance for a seat at the federal bench.

There would at least be the chance the most horrible of Scotus' awful decisions these past 101 years could be overturned.