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To: Jacquerie

Repeal The Seventeenth Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment

“Prior to the Constitution, a federal body was one where states effectively formed nothing more than permanent treaties, with citizens retaining their loyalty to their original state. However, under the new Constitution, the federal government was granted substantially more power than before. Having the state legislatures elect the senators reassured anti-federalists that there would be some protection against the federal government’s swallowing up states and their powers, and providing a check on the power of the federal government.

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Making the Senators elected by popular vote unified a national party.

It changed the dynamic of making Senators represent the State government.


4 posted on 04/07/2024 1:46:18 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

And repeal the 16th and the 19th. It seems a lot of bad ideas (based on the data that’s been collected) were amended into the constitution around the same time - when the commies/socialists were busy seeping their way into our Republic.


5 posted on 04/07/2024 1:52:53 PM PDT by curious7
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

The contradiction created by the 17A was evident once again when the attorney generals of twenty states filed suit against Obamacare . . . after many of the same state senators previously voted for Obamacare.

This could not have happened prior to 1913.


8 posted on 04/07/2024 2:07:30 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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