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The 17th Amendment is a symptom.
The 16th Amendment is the disease.
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FDR/Fed. Reserver, are your root causes. Symptoms: anti-A1S8, SS, income tax, etc.
16th does not supersede the 4th/5th nor 13th. IMO, it is null/void via conflicts.
The 16th is certainly an evil, progressive sibling to the 17th.