To: snopercod
Passage of the 17th Amendment underlies many of the current problems relating to states' rights and the interpretation of the Bill of Rights as a whole. Once the right of state legislatures to appoint senators was abolished the skids to greater central power were greased.
5 posted on
08/29/2003 3:45:44 AM PDT by
monocle
To: monocle
You want to have 50 cronyish legislative party machines picking senators? Thats rich.
Go ahead and crusade for an amendment repealing the 17th, see how far you get - the rest of us will laugh at you from the sidelines.
9 posted on
08/29/2003 4:01:03 AM PDT by
Chancellor Palpatine
(and yes, all that sobbing and prostration over Roy's Rock was pharisaic, as well as idolatrous)
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