Posted on 12/17/2019 3:57:27 PM PST by Liz
Sounds like they’re a half step away from arguing that the Constitution is unconstitutional.
The idiot that wrote this has a obviously not heard of the tyranny of the majority.
This guy has obviously never been to Texas. As a fifth-generation Texan, it’s alway easy to spot the transplants. Native Texans will call themselves ‘Texans’. Transplants will initially called themselves ‘Americans’ or some other nationality.
Eventually, everyone will say, I’m from ..... but I came to Texas as fast as I could.
17th amendment is one of the most destructive events to the country that was ever enacted. A direct attack on the electoral college parallel responsibility. With the electoral college, it is the states that put the president in the office, not the popular vote. Before the 17th amendment it was the states that signed federal laws that came to the Senate from the House. Now the Senate is just another version of the House thieving power from the states.
This dope thinks we are a democracy.
Unless you are a voter at a town meeting in a little rural town hall in VT, you are living in a republic.
The Senate has nor represented States since the ratification of the 17th Amendment except for purposes of populating the Electoral College every four years.
used to, until popular election. facts don’t matter.
The way I understand it, learned her on this website, is that Senators were to be appointed by the Governors, elected by the people, in every state. (Checks and balances).
Hence, how the system is so messed up. Otherwise Hillary would probably never have been elected to the Senate (of NY)in the first place. Weird but, true.
learned this. My apologies.
We (the US collectively) screwed up representation of the States when senators were elected and not appointed.
Agreed. 1913 was a really bad year for the Republic.
The Senate no longer represents the states. That ended with the 17th amendment to the Constitution, when the Senators were elected by popular vote instead of being selected by the state legislatures. Now, the Senate represents the people just like the House of Representatives.
The Democrats should just rewrite the Constitution and do what they can to make it happen.
They could take a shortcut and just adopt the one North Korea has.
Ignoramuses.
Needs to Read Plato
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