Two factors led to enactment of the 17th amendment. First was the problem that many state legislatures deadlocked on their selections for the Senate. The upper house and the lower house could not agree on a choice, or it was prohibitively difficult for one candidate to get an absolute majority in each house (as opposed to a plurality), which was required by federal law. Some states went without representation in the Senate for years as a consequence.
Boo-Hoo. So a State went without Representation. So what? The Tenth still applied as written for that particuliar State that "went without Representation via the Senate choice.
The TENTH Amendment was STILL in force...
Regard?
Amendment 10:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So exactly whats the problem? See the word "OR"? The intent was CLEAR. (Obviously NOT to SOME of you, as I address YOU)...Some distinctions are difficult...and it is understandable WHY you didn't see the distinction.
The second problem involved a perception that the election of senators by state legislatures made them more susceptible to corruption by special interests.
So? This is Different how so from what we see happening today?
The result is the SAME.
So I put it to you...
Or rather ASK...do you see ANY distinction here and WHY the 17th was ill advised, and why the Amendment process, should be seldonm used?
They screwed the pooch with this one in my view. Again? The result is the same and what we see NOW.
the bolded part you stole from here:
Repeal The 17th Amendment by Bruce Bartlett on National Review Online
Two factors led to enactment of the 17th amendment. First was the problem that many state legislatures deadlocked on their selections for the Senate. The upper house and the lower house could not agree on a choice, or it was prohibitively difficult for one candidate to get an absolute majority in each house (as opposed to a plurality), which was required by federal law. Some states went without representation in the Senate for years as a consequence
you filthy little plagiarizing fool, tsk, tsk, tsk.
i did not bother with the rest, tell me how does your "statist long march bullshit" jive with the XVII amendment?
and tell me also, are you completely full of shit, or are there some parts of you who have value for recycling? huh?
The intent of the 17th is well known. And the source is none other than Senator ZELL Miller. The intent of what was crafted was still protected via the Tenth Amendment.
So what that a State didn't have representation by their indecision?
The force of representation of the people was still intact.
So why change it?
The entire charge by me is still intact as well by the march of those that portend to state the will of the people, but vote on the side of STATIST control of the Government is still the same, and why Article 1, Section 3 was changed, because the intent of the Politicians was of more import than the WILL of the
people.
In short? A popularity CONTEST rather than REAL representaion as intended.
That is what I mean by what I said. Your attempt to browbeat me into submission means zero.
""statist long march bullshit" jive with the XVII amendment?" I explained it to you. I cannot help that YOU are so dense, that you cannot see it.
We are dealing with people that are INTENT on control...over everything, rather than the intent of Liberty that they were sworn to uphold.
It would seem to me that YOU are in their camp, and don't care a wit of Liberty.
The words I repeated hold true, and there's NOTHING you can do to change it.