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To: Jacquerie

The problem I see is that the knee jerk reaction to the idea of repealing the 17th A is that people don’t want to cede the power to choose their US Senator.
It takes a full blown conversation with a thinking person to explain how dividing power (even one’s own) has the effect of expanding liberty.
Keep up the fight.
Maybe the states will wake up and reclaim the power that was ultimately designed to preserve our liberty.
A convention of the states would be the way to go for sure.


20 posted on 07/15/2014 4:46:23 PM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: Clump
<>It takes a full blown conversation with a thinking person to explain how dividing power (even one’s own) has the effect of expanding liberty.<>

Well said. Democracy is an easy sell. It appeals to emotion.

21 posted on 07/16/2014 12:41:52 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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