Rhode Island house votes to dilute the state's sovereignty 101 years after the fact.
To: Jacquerie
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I work with a guy who likes to say, “Help me understand what you’re saying ... I only have a Rhode Island public school education ... and I’m just not sure what you mean ...”
3 posted on
06/05/2014 7:43:23 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The 17th shoulda been repealed when they repealed the 19th. Worst gd idea ever.
A very big nail in the coffin of the rights of the sovereign states.
5 posted on
06/05/2014 7:45:36 PM PDT by
Kenny Bunk
( A disbarred gay Muslim lawyer from Kenya as POTUS? Sure! What could go wrong?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Rhode Island values democracy more than the original framers ever did.
6 posted on
06/05/2014 7:47:09 PM PDT by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
at this point, other then voting less often, how are senators different from house members?
7 posted on
06/05/2014 7:47:34 PM PDT by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Before the amendment took effect in 1913, senators were elected by state legislators. That system was widely criticized for breeding corruption as senate aspirants bribed lawmakers to secure the votes needed to win senate seats. Thank goodness they fixed that corruption problem.
8 posted on
06/05/2014 7:48:23 PM PDT by
seowulf
(Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
10 posted on
06/05/2014 7:51:41 PM PDT by
dalereed
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Would like to see a good handful of states RETRACT their previous ratification. At least symbolicallly, bring the current ‘RATifications of the 17th below the number required.
13 posted on
06/05/2014 7:54:25 PM PDT by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The 17th and the 16th need to be repealed.
Federal taxes should be allocated on a per representative and per senator basis. The tax bill then handed to the state and each state then decided how to fund that tax liability. I call it “representative apportionment”.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After the 17th is recognized as failed idea.
20 posted on
06/05/2014 8:09:45 PM PDT by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s one amendment I’d like to take back.
21 posted on
06/05/2014 8:22:09 PM PDT by
AU72
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; ..
23 posted on
06/05/2014 8:36:25 PM PDT by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ugh.
But at least this won’t actually make repealing it any harder.
Now the Senators bribe the people to vote for them, and extort contributions from “special interests” by threatening them with crippling legislation.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"That system was widely criticized for breeding corruption as senate aspirants bribed lawmakers to secure the votes needed to win senate seats."Well, I'm glad we fixed corruption in the US Senate so that a dirty, slimy, dingy politician like Harry Reid would never get elected to the Senate.
Whoops, the corrupt Reid has been not only elected to the Senate, he was voted by his peers to be their Leader. Yup, glad that's fixed.
33 posted on
06/06/2014 4:47:47 AM PDT by
Jabba the Nutt
(You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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