But I read the other day that the 17th Amendment is good because it keeps wealthy individuals from buying Senate seats. Instead, we get to voluntarily elect poor but honest public servants like John Kerry and Dianne Feinstein. :)
Thanks for replying.
I’m sure that many senators follow the money regardless of the campaign promises that they made to middle class citizens to win their votes.
And a major problem with probably most campaign promises for federal spending programs is that the states have actually never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for most of these programs.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And since the feds are arguably stealing state revenues to establish unconstitutional federal spending programs, the states cannot afford to establish such programs with their 10th Amendment-protected powers as the Founding States had expected them to do.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.