[tomkat]

This one should go in the FR stylebook re how to write coherently  :)

If I'm understanding, you're proposing rescinding the 17th, perhaps altering/creating others, and NOT a total rewrite (which, imho and given the current bell curve, bodes disaster) ?

Not that I'll likely be alive to see any of it happen . . .

[tomkat]

and NOT
s/b but NOT

(i think :)

[Jacquerie]

No total rewrite. Diffuse power back to the states with repeal of the 17th and more.

It occurred to me that when conservatives and rats argue over the constitution, they do not debate the same document.

Because the written constitution is nearly gone, there is little to lose when very angry states, prodded by very angry constituents, push back against the DC tyrants.