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Subdermal (10-01-2015)
Years ago, me and others were working hard to remove the 17th amendment from the Constitution. We plowed that field daily. We were dealing with congress during the 1980s. I wanted the 16th revoked too but the group stuck to the 17th. We gave Congress plenty of solid reasons to go back to the founders system. We decided to try to get a states convention to work on it.
Do you recall us revoking the 17th amendment?
LOL
It still has not happened and this is 20 years later.
Bob it has little to do with new people. It has to do with refreshing the representatives. No one should make a career of politics. Our representatives should make laws they know will apply to themselves. And states need representation. That is what the Senate is for. When state legislators pick senators we will once again have a brake on tyranny.
Peter1469 (10-06-2015)
As with most jobs, there is a huge amount to learn to be an effective representative or Senator. The term limits are there today. Your representative is limited to 2 years unless his constituents believe he has done well enough to earn a new term. This also has a limit of 2 years.
The Senate limit is 6 years and one more time they get a chance to redeem themselves.
We are in lockstep over the selection of the Senate.
I think also the nation could heal if the president were not voted on by we the public. I would gladly forfeit voting for him and rely only on the electors, if for nothing else, more harmony inside the country and less divisiveness.
We can discuss that more since I have yet to consider it from that point of view.
Joe Bannister says he did a personal investigation and proved the states did not ratify the 16th amendment that the Democrats rely on to hit the rich unfairly with such high taxes. At least not enough states ratified it.