To KEEP it, we must first RETURN to it.
Excellent point.
Indeed.
<>A major threat to the future of our Republic is that we have a dysfunctional legislative branch. In our governmental structure, as learned by James Madison from Charles Montesquieu, we have three coequal branches of government, kept in alignment by a system of checks and balances. Now, however, that system is totally out of whack, and what we are witnessing is complete breakdown and dysfunction. Franklin said, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government."<>
The 17th Amendment removed the check and balance of a senate of the states. Overnight, our mixed democratic/federal congress went full democratic and enabled the New Deal, Great Society, and Obamunism.
Article V is our only recourse to repeal the 17A.