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Our U.S. Constitution X 3: Three Times Over

Our United States has a written Constitution, and its TEXT provides a framework for governing our country.  The original document is housed in Washington, D.C.

Number One Constitution
     This historic parchment is a viable hard copy with complete text. But the text is discrete in its general statements.  Because some segments are ambiguous, various “readings” of their intended meaning have evolved.  Further, the philosophies and intentions of its authors create a need for literal interpretation.
     When looking deeply into the written text, some parts are not clearly certain what they mean.  When relying on other sections, what its authors intended as rules of governing this nation become fluid.

Number Two Constitution
     The Constitution included a Judicial Branch of government. At first, the federal court system was small and weak.  Then, it grew more and more powerful, until it accumulated a vast book of law cases.  Over the centuries, Supreme Court rulings have created an unwritten Constitution.  From the vast book of intertwined rulings, on any given, the Supreme Court can write its judgment.
     Today’s Court is allowed to make legal judgments that whatever the Court says the Constitution says is what the written text means.

Number Three Constitution
    An invisible Constitution operates around every person. The Invisible Constitution is a contemporary interpretation, which is reinterpreted. Constitutional language gets redefined through powerful events in U.S. History. Its text becomes parsed and layered.
     Specifically, Amendments are adjusted and redefined by the Supreme Court. Congress writes many laws justified by isolated clauses; one its favorites is “the general welfare” clause.  Presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Barrack Obama, rely on the “necessary and proper” clause.  Plus, there are a garden variety of other general rule sections.
     The Invisible Constitutions allows the federal bureaucracy to enlarge federal agencies, as well as build a shadow government.  Congressional offices are so over staffed with vague personnel assignments.  The Justice Department has tiers of legal schools selling brand of Constitutional interpretation sating it is what they say it means.
     The gaps and ambiguity within the original text has opened the door for constant generalizations.  Its text is an ever moving target or a partial constitution with fluid structures.  Congresses federal regulations, national laws signed by presidents, and an evolutionary Supreme Court generate extra textual rules of governing.  At this point in American government, there is no self regulation! None of the three branches has any obligation, or a sense of duty, to explain their actions.

THE GOOD NEWS is “we the people” have a legal right of amend the written Constitution. Smarter America leads this campaign for good citizens and love of country.
     Every one of the three forms of Constitution is based on the Consent of the Governed.  We who vote, pay taxes, and reside in communities have the right to say how we want government run.  We can restrict our ever expanding federal government.  Let us have a Constitutional convention for the sole purpose of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. Article IV, Sec.4 reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every state a Republican Form of Government.”

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The bigger our federal bureaucracy grows, the greater the corruption.
Compelling 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. 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 17^th, 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

8. 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.

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

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