>So a repeal of the 17th Amendment would be the much preferred option. Likely this would mean that 1/3rd of the US senate would be confirmed or replaced by their home State legislature in the following three federal elections.
I would also like an amendment which forbade the government / congress from spending monies not in existence... the Constitution allows for the minting of silver or gold coinage only... perhaps the federal government should be forbidden to use EFT, Check, and Credit Card. By making our money a physical thing they could not as easily spend money we do not have. (States, however, would not be so constrained.)
“(States, however, would not be so constrained.)”
Do you mean they would not be so constrained by the suggested amendment or that they would not be so constrained at all?
If the federal government was forbidden to use EFT, Check, and Credit Card would not everyone it deals with be so constrained when dealing with them? The military could not be paid with EFT, Check or Credit Card. The builders of planes, tanks, aircraft carriers etc could not be paid with EFT, Check or Credit Card. Revenue for the purpose of paying the military could not be rendered with EFT, Check or Credit Card.