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To: Jacquerie
From Article V

...and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

One might argue that those states not ratifying the 17th amendment are exempt from it.

3 posted on 06/14/2014 2:21:48 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

Excellent point.


6 posted on 06/14/2014 2:33:09 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th. Article V.)
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To: SeeSharp
One might argue that those states not ratifying the 17th amendment are exempt from it.

I don't see how you can make that argument unless you also want to argue that those states that didn't ratify the 13th Amendment can still have slavery or those states that didn't ratify the 2nd Amendment can totally ban gun ownership.

11 posted on 06/14/2014 4:12:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeeSharp
No.

"Equal Suffrage" means equal representation, and the 17th amendment did not change that. It only changed the method of choosing Senators, not the number of them per state.

-PJ

38 posted on 06/14/2014 11:11:09 AM 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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