Amend to repeal the 17th. Such an amendment can’t be cheated. Forget everything else.
I agree. Both the 16th and 17th Amendments need to disappear imo.
The biggest problem with the country is not the federal government per se, but low-information citizens imo.
More specifically, such citizens unthinkingly abuse their voting power by using it to unconstitutionally expand the federal government’s powers when they sell their votes to corrupt career politicians.
This is because many voters evidently do not understand that the feds have no constitutional authority to give the voters the social spending programs and politically correct rights that politicians promise to give them if elected.
In fact, candidates for citizenship should be required to prove that they understand the following Supreme Court clarifications of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers before they are allowed to become citizens.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.