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To: stanne

“If trump can’t stay beyond eight years neither should any of these do nothing corrupt people”

Senators were supposed to be appointed not elected.


7 posted on 01/23/2020 7:47:20 AM PST by dljordan
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To: dljordan

Well I don’t know about that. I am quite sure their original job description has changed dramatically

That is if you want to go back to old rules. You’d have to limit what they go around doing now. Including having foreign spies as household staff, having ones brother getting billions from unfriendly countries, hav


15 posted on 01/23/2020 7:53:50 AM PST by stanne
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To: dljordan

“Senators were supposed to be appointed not elected.”


Well they were elected by their states’ legislatures, but I get your point. But term limits would require 2/3rds of them to vote to limit their political careers, which does seem unlikely. Of course a Constitutional Convention called by the states might do the trick...


41 posted on 01/23/2020 9:12:40 AM PST by hanamizu
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