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To: betty boop
The Senate still retains its powers, it's just the controlling link to the state legislatures that is broken. That's why Senators no longer fear losing their seats and are free to go against the interests of their constituents.

That's why I say that the idea that Congress can thwart a convention of states by holding some sort of implied "same-subject" requirement over the states is just another surrender of power - this time it's the states' power to compel a proposing convention.

The 17th amendment changed the nature of Congress, but it didn't change the plain language of Article V, calling a Convention for proposing Amendments - plural.

Demanding a same-subject requirement just hands Congress a weapon to use against the states to prevent them from organizing, when no such requirement seems to exist in the Constitution or in the Federalist Papers writings.

-PJ

116 posted on 09/29/2015 3:33:03 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
The Senate still retains its powers, it's just the controlling link to the state legislatures that is broken.

But absent the controlling link to the state legislatures, what powers does the Senate legitimately exercise under the Constitution? The Seventeenth Amendment absolutely extinguished the entire raison d'être for the Senate as envisioned by the Framers of the Constitution — that the Senate is the representative body of the States in Congress.

And it's all been downhill from there.... Now it seems that the only people Senators "represent" is — themselves.

120 posted on 09/29/2015 4:59:56 PM PDT by betty boop (The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.)
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