I can't stop thinking about that progressive (not meant literally) madman, who signed Amendment XVII into law.
With a cavalier dash of the pen, Woodrow Wilson enacted the Amendment that did more to undermine the power of sovereign States than ever dreamed possible.
Since that time, States rights have suffered a steady erosion of States and individual rights, in favor of insatiable central planners.
It would be reasonable to call Wilson the architect of the career politician.
Imagine a world without the royal politician, who wields and deals on the backs of Americans and in spite of the Will of The People! Imagine our State Senators meeting annually in D.
C.
to do the Will of the People and then returning home to their REAL jobs in the private sector! Those real jobs and their employment of them would require those Senators to enjoy the fruits of their legislative labor, the same as any other citizen.
Just imagine them being taxed the same, subjected to criminal law the same, and being held accountable for deceitful behavior, as must be each and every ordinary citizen.
Indeed, it would be a wake-up experience for State senators to have to work with and among us while being subjected to both the favorable and punitive repercussions of the laws they, themselves, legislated! If this sounds too good to be true, we need only to refer to the Constitutional provision which for over a century and a quarter had prevented the insidious cancer known as the career politician.
Article I, Section 3.
states: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, [chosen by the Legislature thereof,]...
" This sage but simple sentencing prevented federal interference in the selection of State senators, who had been sent to Washington to do their respective State's bidding.
It ensured they were beholding first to their sovereign States, rather than the federal government.
However, Wilson was shrewd; he knew that by removing the protection of Article I, Section 3.
, the way would be cleared to Washington's manipulation of all senatorial elections, the ultimate power for his progressive administration and those that followed.
This architect created what appeared to be an innocuous substitute; i.
e.
, changing the selection process from a choice by the State's Legislature to "elected by the people thereof" was a brilliant deception.
We, The People, didn't know what hit us until it was too late.
I have hope that, once the next Convention of the States convenes, Amendment XVII will be repealed, and State representation returned, according to the Founders' original intent.
I can only pray I will be alive to witness it.
With a cavalier dash of the pen, Woodrow Wilson enacted the Amendment that did more to undermine the power of sovereign States than ever dreamed possible.
Since that time, States rights have suffered a steady erosion of States and individual rights, in favor of insatiable central planners.
It would be reasonable to call Wilson the architect of the career politician.
Imagine a world without the royal politician, who wields and deals on the backs of Americans and in spite of the Will of The People! Imagine our State Senators meeting annually in D.
C.
to do the Will of the People and then returning home to their REAL jobs in the private sector! Those real jobs and their employment of them would require those Senators to enjoy the fruits of their legislative labor, the same as any other citizen.
Just imagine them being taxed the same, subjected to criminal law the same, and being held accountable for deceitful behavior, as must be each and every ordinary citizen.
Indeed, it would be a wake-up experience for State senators to have to work with and among us while being subjected to both the favorable and punitive repercussions of the laws they, themselves, legislated! If this sounds too good to be true, we need only to refer to the Constitutional provision which for over a century and a quarter had prevented the insidious cancer known as the career politician.
Article I, Section 3.
states: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, [chosen by the Legislature thereof,]...
" This sage but simple sentencing prevented federal interference in the selection of State senators, who had been sent to Washington to do their respective State's bidding.
It ensured they were beholding first to their sovereign States, rather than the federal government.
However, Wilson was shrewd; he knew that by removing the protection of Article I, Section 3.
, the way would be cleared to Washington's manipulation of all senatorial elections, the ultimate power for his progressive administration and those that followed.
This architect created what appeared to be an innocuous substitute; i.
e.
, changing the selection process from a choice by the State's Legislature to "elected by the people thereof" was a brilliant deception.
We, The People, didn't know what hit us until it was too late.
I have hope that, once the next Convention of the States convenes, Amendment XVII will be repealed, and State representation returned, according to the Founders' original intent.
I can only pray I will be alive to witness it.
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