To: Impy
The 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.
That Amendment damaged States’ rights and was the beginning of unlimited Federal power over the States.
To: Bartholomew Roberts
[ The 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.
That Amendment damaged States’ rights and was the beginning of unlimited Federal power over the States. ]
I would add the 19th and the 16th while we are at but the 17th is damned fine start!
17 posted on
01/05/2019 5:46:38 AM PST by
GraceG
("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
To: Bartholomew Roberts
That’s why Wilson wanted that amendment so badly. State governments get shut out of DC and power gets centralized. As he put it, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. […] (m)en as communities are supreme over men as individuals”.
24 posted on
01/05/2019 5:52:03 AM PST by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Bartholomew Roberts
"The 17th Amendment needs to be repealed." Amen brother..!
45 posted on
01/05/2019 6:31:48 AM PST by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: Bartholomew Roberts
The 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.
That Amendment damaged States’ rights and was the beginning of unlimited Federal power over the States.
Well, it went a LONG way in that, but it started when the right of sovereign states to leave the Union was forcibly denied.
82 posted on
01/05/2019 2:30:41 PM PST by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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