The Supreme Court has clarified that Congess cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially only for things that it can justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But the corrupt Senate elected by low-information voters has scandalously failed to kill a bunch of House appropriations bills (1.7.1) that the House cannot justify under Congress’s Section 8 powers.
The 17th Amendment needs to go.
AND, after ratification the American Republic continued to improve itself. Between 1789 and prior to 1913, we fine tuned our constitution for the better.
1791. Ten Amendments which acknowledged some God-given and societal rights.
1865. An amendment that eliminated the British imposed institution of slavery.
1868. The 14th Amendment that reinforced personal and societal rights guaranteed in the Declaration and Bill of Rights.
1913 marked the formal invasion of progressivism into the apogee of the Enlightenment, our constitution.
Why is it so tough to sell freedom, the need to return to our republican roots?