Posted on 10/20/2007 3:45:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Yes, yes, YES . . . . . . . 1,000 times YES!!!!. Repeal this dreck Amendment and restore our REPRESENTATIVE republic to the structure that the Founding Fathers intended!!!!!
This is the exact amendment that has caused the horrible shift of power that has gone one. its repeal would put the system of checks and balances back in operation. The US senates responsiblty were outlined for a group that would not be subject to PUBLIC pressure.
House is for the people
Senate is for the States
Many replican state houses have liberal senators.
Senator are presently suject to lobbys and corruption. So anyone who wants campaign finiance reform should more be looking at the repeal of this amendment. Doing so would go a long way to fixing the country. Fixing corruption. Fixing how judges are selected and stop judges that overreach.
There needs to be a grass roots to repeal this.
This is one of former Senator Zell Miller’s most passionate conclusions after leaving the Senate.
And while we’re at it let’s get rid of 14 too. That one has led to a tremendous amount of mischief including the ridiculous concept of the anchor baby. Nobody born in the United States was brought here against their will. Job done. Away with the accursed 14th I say.
Sounds good to me.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and the Democrats control the senate. They control both houses of the legislature in 23 states. That 46 seats right there. In 11 states the Democrats control one house and the Republicans control the other. Assume they compromise and split the Senate seats between the two parties and that’s still 11 more Democrats in the Senate. Final total is 57 Democrats and 43 Republicans.
EXACTLY!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Temporarily (as we know most people in the states are conservative minded); that will be remedies in the normal if it happens, electoral process).. It will have the long term-effect of having much more conservative senators!
Hell, no.
I’ve long believed this Amendment needs to be repealed. Doing so would do much more to reform lobbyist influence than McCain-Feingold. Senators who are not popularly elected need not raise huge campaign war chests. Likewise, I think it would probably have a positive impact on porkbarreling. At present, a Senator makes his name by bringing home Federal tax dollars from across the 50 states, and slapping his name on a bridge, highway or Army Reserve Armory for all of his electorate to see. If, on the other hand, the Senators were directly responsible to the state legislatures, they would have a greater vested interest in keeping tax dollars from ever leaving their state in the first place.
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and it should be.
We have tens of thousands of brave troops who have volunteered, putting their lives on the line, to help secure our freedoms.
Are we brave enough to give them back up?
Remember, we get the kind of gov't we deserve. Too many people today, even Republicans, think the gov't should do everything - NO.
WE are the government - we tell THEM what to do and what to knock off doing
What???? The PEOPLE ACTUALLY BE GIVEN A SAY IN GOVERNMENT???? Surely you jest!!! Surely!!! In a totalitarian form of government which our beloved Marxist’s Dimocrats of the People’s Socialist Abortion Homo-Fag Party are forming, the people don’t get no freaking say!! The Commissars and Queen Hildabitch have all the say. We are mere sheep and know nothing. We cannot read, write, or do crap. We are stupid, led by those of higher IQs than we. We certainly do not deserve to have a say in our own government. We were MEANT to be ruled by the Marxists./mild sarcasm still running hot
I've never heard it said, but the 17th Amendment also denies the right of the people to have a Republican form of government (As defined by the Constitution at the time of ratification).
Surprise, Surprise! The great and noble experiment failed on the day the 17th was ratified. But that is not really true, for the Supreme Law of the Land cannot be diminished, even by ratification of an amendment.
The Amendment is repugnant to the Constitution. Not in pursuance to the Constitution/Bill of Rights. Why are we still allowing senators to be elected by popular vote? Why has no one filed a suit against the government charging deprivation of rights?
Think of it as an incentive to pay just as much attention to the State elections as the Federal. Most people don’t even know who their State representatives are, let alone what their politics are.
Oh, and let's not forget the 16th amendment either. That amendment has come close to putting us into slavery.
As I put these electrons in order on this page, the Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
Thomas Jefferson was right in the time frame he suggested. [And no, I won't explain that last sentence to those of you in Rio Linda or PBC]
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