Posted on 09/07/2018 11:49:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Nearly every assault on the Constitution you itemize can be traced to the 17th Amendment.
Yup. The 17th pulled the constitutional legs out from under the state governments and the states have effectively lost their so-called “equal representation” to the federal government and have consequently lost many of the constitutional rights and powers formerly reserved to them by the constitution.
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