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Posted on 04/23/2010 11:02:09 PM PDT by neverdem
"Direct elections of Senators … allowed Washington’s special interests to call the shots, whether it is filling judicial vacancies, passing laws, or issuing regulations. Libertarian author and economist Thomas DiLorenzo has characterized the Seventeenth Amendment as "one of the last nails to be pounded into the coffin of federalism in America."
"The amendment has been blamed, together with the Sixteenth Amendment, for greatly expanding the authority of the United States Congress in the 20th century."
Organizations have been created to support the amendment's complete repeal.
In 2003, the Judiciary Committee of the Montana House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment by a vote of 6-3, but the resolution was defeated in the Montana Senate by a vote of 39-10.
~Wiki repeal of 17th amendment
Ok...While I agree that the 17th Amendment should be repealed and would be an improvement, the root cause America's dysfunction is spiritual sickness.
For years now I have been posting that conservatives assiduously hack away at the trees ( immediate legislative bills before congress) and are oblivious to the fact that atheistic, secular humanist, Marxists are continually planting forests all around us! The Marxist do these by means of our government K-12 schools and colleges, the media, and the arts.
Conservatives MUST MUST MUST do two things:
1)Work to bring a spiritual revival to all Americans.
2) Conservatives MUST MUST MUST work to shut down and get our nation's children out of our temples of atheistic, secular humanist, Marxism!!!! ( Mis-named “public” schools)
Conservatives MUST MUST MUST work to see that every child in the U.S. has access to a private education that teaches and supports our nation's founding principles and our Judeo Christian values and **thoroughly** integrates these values into all of their school policies and courses.
If conservatives were to do this, within 10 years our nation's college classrooms would be full to the brim with students who were well prepared to defend their faith and our nation's founding principles. Their Marxist professors would wither before their righteousness. Soon these young people would be taking their place in academia, the media, and the arts.
Government schools can NOT be reformed. Simply by attending, children learn to be comfortable with having the government take money from their neighbor to pay for a service their parents want for tuition-free. Well?....If the government can take money from a neighbor for tution-free school, why not a thousand other wants and needs?
Atheistic Marxism is our nation's MOST serious threat. Government schools are the Marxist's MOST powerful weapon.
...”It’s the Constitution”? No. It’s the 17th amendment, I agree, should be repealed. I’m still looking at the 27th...
...Reminds me of a year ago. I attended a talk by Rand Paul, here in Lex KY. It was a republican meeting, and, independent, conservative, libertarian me, infiltrated the meeting. I brought up the 17th issue during the Q and A. He urged me to switch my party affiliation to republican, for the primary Though I support Paul for senator, I disagree that 2012 would not be a good time to take action, and I made it clear. When I asked him to pledge this in the future, and sign my Heritage pocket Constitution on the page of the 17th, he did...
...For all it's worth, I got him by the ass!!!
Very good article. This needs to be talked about so much more.
Saw a comic: FDR announcing the New Deal, Truman announcing the Fair Deal and Obama with Biden announcing the Big F&%#ing Deal.
“We need to learn that politics are emotions and most people vote with emotions, regardless of logic. Conservatives had better understand this or we will die.”
Well said.
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