Posted on 05/22/2005 12:54:33 PM PDT by Perdogg
What would we the US Senate make up be if the 17th Amendment were to be repealed?
What would the US Senate make up be if the 17th Amendment were to be repealed.
Sorry about that!
Tammany Hall comes back....
Well, for one, we'd be rid of senators like Boxer beholden to leftist kooks.
Worse than it looks now.
It would put the STATESmen back in the Senate. I'm all for it. Albany would never have picked Hillary. Too few in Congress give a rat's ass about keeping authority that belongs to the States from migrating illegally into the Federal government. Senators beholden to their state legislatures would give one. This would restore respect for the 10th Amendment, and let Senators act more like Judges than Representatives. They are supposed to be half-way between the two. As it is, they are unable to do anything (like convict a guilty president) without checking a poll.
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