Compelling Benefits for
Repealing The Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth
Amendment made electing U.S. Senators a direct vote of the people.
On the face of direct " consent of the governed", ratification makes
sense. Who wants to give up their vote?
However, that is
not the case. Senators were an add-on during the First Constitutional
Convention. They got tossed into Article I as an appeasement to
the smaller states. James Madison, Father of the Constitution,
Benjamin Franklin, author of The Articles of Confederation ,and Governor
Morris, created " The Great Compromise". These mental giants
envisioned a selected few Senators, appointed by state legislature, as an advisory board to the Executive Branch.
In the 1900's
William Randolph Hearst, progressive publicist, championed the citizen
vote. Leveraging this national appeal, the Seventeenth was
ratified, thereby elevating Senators into an elitist group.
A
Constitution scholar from Stanford University, Dr. Kramer, noted that
turning Senate elections back over to state legislatures is an
anti-democratic movement" ( Kansas City Star: 08.22.10). But his
expertise overlooks the power of local voters mandating which candidate
their state legislatures must chose.
As the direct election scenario has played out since 1913, voters have
become disenfranchised from their U.S. Senator.
Senators have
joined the House of Representatives as another ever expanding power
grab by Congress.
"We The People" need to recognized how badly the fraud has
become.
The bigger our federal bureaucracy grows, the greater the
corruption.
Benefits for
undoing five decades of federal power are:
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Restore the
original intent of U.S. Senators: an advisory board.
( Our restoration movement to reclaim the power of Amendment Ten.)
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Cut federal
bureaucracy in the Senate and reduce committees, that link into
the Executive Branch.
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Restore
States their guaranteed powers under Amendment Ten.
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Give
the voters a more direct and powerful voice in whom their
Senators shall be. ( At present, Senators disappear for six years,
until next election cycle.) Voters maintain their direct vote for
U.S. Senatorial candidates.
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Make
Senators accountable to their State Legislators, who have the
ability to recall them.
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The people's
disenchantment with their Senator would be aired locally!
Because a U.S. Senator is appointed through a state legislature,
that individual is directly responsible to that state's
expectations. The
distance for affirmative action is as close as any state capitol and
its state legislature. Therefore, U.S. Senators would primarily represent their state and the
people's need within that state.
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All politics
is local! Prior to ratifying the Seventeenth Amendment
in 1913, citizens saw more of their Senators. Each state's citizens'
voted for their choice, then state legislatures appointed the
voters' choice.. The
best know example is the famous Lincoln and Douglas debates. Since
Lincoln lost to Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas was appointed as U.S. Senator
from the Illinois
State legislature.
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More Money to the States:
An important component that will prove beneficial to
the several states is taxes! Each State needs money; better to keep
monies at home than to send to the federal government in far away
D.C. Allow the voters with in each state to elect officials who can
best allocate tax revenues for their individual state
Money is the key factor in growth and it is the key
motivator for the several states. Each State needs money, and they
need it yesterday. The repeal of the 17th, as a
stand-alone Constitutional Amendment, gets them no money. But a
combination where the states control tax money as well as their U.S.
Senator necessitates the power and the programs returning to the
states. Each States would become a capitalistic entity, competing
with one another for business and people’s purchasing power. From a
completive, capitalistic perspective, State would reduce their size
and scope of their governments
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A
Constitutional Convention Warning.
Call for a Constitutional Convention
to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment through state legislatures.
washingtonpost.com
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The
Framers of the Constitution established election of senators by state
legislators, under which system the nation got the Great Triumvirate
(Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun) and thrived. In 1913,
progressives, believing that more, and more direct, democracy is always
wonderful, got the 17th Amendment ratified. It's time for repeal.
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From America’s Depression era cowboy, Will Rogers:
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a
Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a
Senate?”
“If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?”
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