[Lazamataz]

You are probably the first to say that a sitting Senator would refuse to vacate his seat. Under what authority would he do that?

The authority of Owed Reparations.

I'm speaking mostly of black Senators. When you see the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, and John Conyers (representatives, of course, but extrapolate to Senator behavior), and especially if a switch in election methodology occurred midterm, I could see them refusing.

And running a government-in-exile, too.

[Political Junkie Too]

That's an absurd scenario. Nobody would be ousted mid-term. It doesn't happen now, and won't happen after any Constitutional change.

Try again.

-PJ

[stremba]

Laz,

Let’s assume for the sake of argument and assume that you’re right, that Senators would refuse to leave office under a repeal of the 17th Amendment. We should still repeal that amendment via an Article V convention. The reason is that most people would not believe that such an occurence could happen without actually seeing it. If we don’t exhaust all legitimate, Constitutional means to reign in Federal power and jump straight into more extreme measures, we are deemed kooks and nuts by the general populace, and our cause is hopeless.

However, if we use a legal, constitutional measure, such as repeal of the 17th Amendment via an Article V convention, such an action confers legitimacy on our side. If, in that case, Senators refuse to leave office even though the law states that they must, the general population concedes that we were right all along about the tyrants in the government, and will support our cause. Now we may have a chance to rectify the situation.

We must exhaust all legitimate, Constitutional remedies first. As I pointed out before, how does doing so cause harm? At worst, the Feds will ignore these actions and we are no worse off than we would be had we not done it.