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To: Jacquerie
The 17th Amendment turned what was a federal republic into a democratic republic. It is the first cause of our slow, hundred year slide into despotism.

On one hand, I see that was a big section of the foundation removed.

But as one who reviewed American History fairly well when teaching my homeschooled children a few years back, I still believe the cracks in the foundation were there from the start because Northern and Southern conventioneers could not agree on a Constitution that would have prevented the War of Northern Agression.
13 posted on 11/24/2014 10:28:11 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
Simple republican theory known to all since ancient times is that the people are represented in a government that acts upon them.

If the constitution acted only on the people, and ignored the states, a congress composed of reps of the people would be consistent with republican theory.

However, our constitution acts on both the people and the states, and until 1913, both were represented, as they should be in the law-giving body, congress.

It makes as much sense under our system to deny congressional representation to the people as it does to deny it to the states.

It is amazing that this internal contradiction, of government without consent of the states, took so long to destroy our nation.

The 17th left in its wake a federal constitution without a federal government.

16 posted on 11/24/2014 10:48:10 AM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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