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To: GraceG
We get so little out of state legislators because so little is expected. If states appointed senators, it would mean citizens could reasonably contact our state reps to discuss upcoming treaties, presidential appointments, and any bill that was making its way through congress. Repeal of the 17th would actually empower voters far better than direct elections.
51 posted on 05/05/2014 12:35:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie (By their oaths, it is the duty of state legislators to invoke Article V.)
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To: Jacquerie; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; sickoflibs
>> it would mean citizens could reasonably contact our state reps to discuss upcoming treaties, presidential appointments, and any bill that was making its way through congress <<

It sounds like Jacquerie would also like to repeal Article 1, Section 10. of the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly tells state governments to keep their nose OUT of things like international treaties (which both parties have ignored anyway, especially when they want to thumb their nose at the other party in power nationally).

Actually, now that I think about it, Jacquerie seems like the kind of freeper that would have vehemently opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in the first place, and argued after Shay's rebellion that we were MUCH better off under the Articles of Confederation, when the federal government had NO power to enforce anything, and states had unlimited powers to run things how they saw fit.

The Paulbots have a similar mindset... preaching about how much their guy is the savior of the Constitution, when it in reality Ron Paul seems like the kind of guy who would have been an outspoken anti-federalist and loudly opposed the creation of a strong central government if he was alive in the 1780s.

I'm surprised Mark Levin isn't a Paulbot. His followers are sounding more and more like them every day.

53 posted on 05/05/2014 1:34:52 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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