Repeal The 17th Amendment? Yes Please

Absolutely! The 17th Amendment turned the Senate into another House. The original intent of the Senate was to give states a voice in the federal government. The House gave the people a voice, and the President represented the nation. With the 17th Amendment states get kicked to the curb in favor of more mob rule.
If instead, the Senate were apportioned as pre-17th Amendment right now the Senate would be predominately Republican rather than a slender majority and the House being Democrat would have to work with the Senate on that basis. But because the Senate has a slender majority and enforces a phony filibuster rule, nothing gets done.
That isn't to say eliminating the filibuster rule and letting the 17th Amendment stand is a fix, because it isn't. That just turns the Senate into a second version of the House and makes the whole point of having two houses in Congress moot and irrelevant.
 
I'd say it's the 14th. Amendment that needs changed. NO more anchor babies...
 
Guille said:
I get what you're sayin' but I don't think the 14th is an issue if the 17th doesn't exist.
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I'd say it would still be a problem. The 14th. has outlived it's usefulness. It gave slaves and other immigrants citizenship along with their children.
When written, there was no welfare, therefore, no reason for illegals to come here to have their litters and collect our gov't benefits. Today they do.
 
Chaz said:
I agree. Second worst amendment ever ratified, after the 18th.
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To Chaz: The XVI Amendment is the worst amendment by far because it pays for everything that is destroying this country. In addition, The U.S. would never have become the greatest country the world ever saw before a tax on income was IMPLEMENTED —— NEVER RATIFIED.

Note that the XVII Amendment was also implemented but never ratified.

Few Americans realize that all of the worst lies combined do not exceed the biggest lie told about the XVI and the XVII Amendments —— THEY WERE NEVER RATIFIED. THEY WERE IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED.
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The XVI Amendment:
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Checkmate
Published: 11/18/2005 at 1:00 AM
DEVVY KIDD

http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33472/
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National Archives
Seventeenth Amendment
By: Devvy Kidd
March 2010

http://www.devvy.com/new_site/17th_amendment_docs_march_2010.html
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https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...s-amp-Two-Evil-Non-Laws&p=2776904#post2776904
 
Flanders said:
To Chaz: The XVI Amendment is the worst amendment by far because it pays for everything that is destroying this country. In addition, The U.S. would never have become the greatest country the world ever saw before a tax on income was IMPLEMENTED —— NEVER RATIFIED.

Note that the XVII Amendment was also implemented but never ratified.

Few Americans realize that all of the worst lies combined do not exceed the biggest lie told about the XVI and the XVII Amendments —— THEY WERE NEVER RATIFIED. THEY WERE IMPLEMENTED AND ENFORCED.
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The XVI Amendment:
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Checkmate
Published: 11/18/2005 at 1:00 AM
DEVVY KIDD

http://www.wnd.com/2005/11/33472/
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XXXXX
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National Archives
Seventeenth Amendment
By: Devvy Kidd
March 2010

http://www.devvy.com/new_site/17th_amendment_docs_march_2010.html
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https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...s-amp-Two-Evil-Non-Laws&p=2776904#post2776904
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The 16th Amendment was ratified by the 36th requisite state on February 3rd, 1913.
 
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