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To: neverdem

The 17th was the greatest damage to federalism between the Civil War and the New Deal and arguably more damaging than the New Deal.


2 posted on 04/23/2010 11:10:09 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (NEW TAG ====> **REPEAL OR REBEL!** -- Islam Delenda Est! -- Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

True - good point.


4 posted on 04/23/2010 11:26:15 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

yeap it was a huge mistake.


7 posted on 04/23/2010 11:56:04 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
....arguably more damaging than the New Deal.

If I understand the writer correctly, he's charging the 17th Amendment with having enabled the New Deal and FDR's presidential imperialism.

11 posted on 04/24/2010 12:44:49 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

...”It’s the Constitution”? No. It’s the 17th amendment, I agree, should be repealed. I’m still looking at the 27th...


24 posted on 04/24/2010 11:56:54 AM PDT by gargoyle (..."I have not yet begun to fight" John Paul Jones...)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
FDR gave us the new deal, and Hussein is giving us the raw deal. No doubt the 17th amendment fundamentally screwed up a system that was purposely designed to protect our liberty. The Founders were simply brilliant.
27 posted on 04/24/2010 6:54:34 PM PDT by Clump (the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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