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REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT

The Seventeenth Amendment add to the United States Constitution changed the Founding Father's intent concerning a smaller federal government. Our Constitution was resisted by the Commonwealth of Virginia in Williamsburg, and it was not ratified by New York. These Revolutionary War leaders lived quite close to a tyrannical, royal empire.  They were afraid the same thing would happen with a United States federal government.

Amendment Seventeen took away control of the several states, broke down the walls of Separation of Powers, and neutered the Tenth Amendment ( guaranteed states powers).  Our new amendment restores, both , Constitutional intent and states' powers.

The bigger our federal bureaucracy grows, the greater the corruption.
Benefits for undoing five decades of federal power are:

1. Restore the original intent of U.S. Senators: an advisory board

2. Cut federal bureaucracy in the Senate and reduce committees, spilling into the Executive Branch.

3. Restore States guaranteed powers under Amendment Ten.

4.  Give the voters a more direct and powerful voice in who their Senators shall be. ( At present, Senators disappear for six years, until next election cycle.)

5. Make Senators accountable to their State Legislators, who have the ability to recall them.

6. The people's disenchantment with their Senator would be aired locally! The distance for affirmative action is as close as the state capitol and its legislature. Senators would represent their state and the people's need within that state.

7. All politics is local!  Prior to ratifying the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, citizens saw more of their Senators. They voted for their choice, and state legislatures appointed the popular choice.. The best know example is the famous Lincoln and Douglas debates; Lincoln lost to Douglas, who was appointed to the Senate by the Illinois State legislature.

8. 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.

Call for a Constitutional Convention to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment through state legislatures.

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