...The House of Representatives was often referred to as “The People’s House.” This is because it was designed to have representatives from every district acting on behalf of the people of that district. The Senate, on the other hand, was designed to protect the sovereign rights of the states. This is why the senators were chosen by the legislatures of their respective states. The 17th Amendment basically took away the entity that protected the states from abuse of power by the federal government. We now basically have two “People’s Houses,” and nobody to represent the states as an entity. Allowing the people to elect both senators and representatives created a system where both houses of Congress are beholden to the people and their votes. No government entity is held accountable to the states, therefore the federal government has become a body that has taken all power to govern upon itself. If the federal government does not like what a state is doing, they punish the states by withholding funds for roads or any other manner of penality. Since it was ratified in 1913 we have been losing states’ rights over time and it is getting faster. Today we see the abuses of the federal government destroying the powers of the state at an alarming rate. The 17th Amendment must go if we are ever to rein in the abuses of the federal government. The good news is that we do not need a Constitutional amendment to do that. Here’s why…
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:07:48 +0000
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