Repeal the 17th Amendment now to save the republic and secure our liberties

Posted: April 28, 2004
5:00 pm Eastern

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 Georgia Democratic Sen. Zell Miller is calling for the United States to restore the wishes of its Founding Fathers and empower state legislatures to appoint senators rather than be elected by voters.

The retiring Miller, who has garnered attention over the past year with stinging critiques of his Democratic Party, believes rescinding the 17th Amendment would curb the power of special interests in Washington while increasing the power of state governments.

"The individuals are not so much at fault as the rotten and decaying foundation of what is no longer a republic," Miller said on the Senate floor, according to the Associated Press. "It is the system that stinks. And it's only going to get worse because that perfect balance our brilliant Founding Fathers put in place in 1787 no longer exists."

Members of the U.S. House have been chosen by voters since the nation's founding.

Miller, a former two-term governor of Georgia, contends the Constitution's prescription for balancing the interests of large and small states and the power of state and federal governments was destroyed when the U.S. ratified the 17th Amendment in 1913.

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By: Devvy Kidd

June 5, 2006

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"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." – President Andrew Jackson

The level of anger against the counterfeit U.S. Senators who voted last week to reward criminal activity in their so-called "immigration reform bill" continues to grow. Poltroons like Teddy Chappaquidick Kennedy and John deceptive war hero McCain are still making the talking head shows trying to sell their bogus arguments about illegals and giving them a free pass. None of this is washing with Americans who respect the rule of law and who understand the dire situation on the border: terrorists crossing our borders, thousands of diseased illegals crossing over, the increasing numbers of gangs from South America and the tons of addictive narcotics (heroin and cocaine) and weapons being smuggled across. Let's not forget the staggering number of violent sexual predators coming across the border and now out there trolling for your child:

 

"Based on a one-year in-depth study, a researcher estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each." Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute...

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Looking back in history from 1913 till now since the 17th amendment was ratified. We can see a pattern emerge on the Federal Government gradually usurping power away from the States. The original intent in the was the US Senate was made up with two people from each state appointed by the legislator as an ambassador to keep federal power in check within its function delegated by the US Constitution. This mechanism with the founders intent of checks and balances between state and federal governments. 
               The 10th amendment gave states rights respectively without federal interference not delegated by the articles of confederation. The State Legislators gave instruction to the US Senators on how to vote in legislation concerning the interest of the respective states.
               If you look at all that happened ever since. We went from "No taxation without representation" to "Taxation without hesitation" Since 1913 more federal power has become more centralized in Washington DC.
               If there was no 17th amendment. Would there be a federal reserve act?
The states would not allow monetary policy to be dictated by a privately own institution.
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Mr. Warm

Absolutely right; a vital element of the aristocratic versus democratic constitutional republic the founding fathers created is the integrity of state rights which is secured by elevation to the federal senate through the state legislatures to ensure federal senators, in whose chamber each state is equal to every other, deliberate in terms of their respective states' interests. The entire system of checks & balances between federal government branches as well as between the whole federal government, which properly answers to the states, & the states themselves hinges on the correct working of the principle of the bi-cameral congress the founding fathers crafted after much strife, debate, acrimony & fank revelations of concerns, fears & interests. From the period of so called re-construction after the war of northern aggression to ratification of the seventeenth amemdment the import of all the forgoing was de-graded in favor of allegedly higher considerations. Now in 2006 we see what some of the more shocking consequences are.

I am a 46 year old self taught student of political problems in Dayton, Ohio who even as a kindergarten & primary school kid wondered what in blazes was wrong with a nation enjoying the patrimony &... [More]

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                  Hearing Mayor Bloomberg saying his economy would implode if all the illegal invaders were deported. Seeing the Senate Bill and the House Bill means it is the tale of two communities. Main Street USA vs K Street Washington,DC.   Corporate America is getting a black eye when large companies have either slave  labor in China or hired illegals. Keep labor cost down is their motto at all cost. Never mind the rule of law, the burden on the law-abiding taxpayers, the strain on healthcare and the diseases they bring in. Never mind right or wrong, Loyalty to the country that made them prosper is second to the bottom line. Everything is the bottom line regardless of the consequences that may befall we outside the boardroom have to put up with. With ENRON,Tycho and Worldcom going   under due to misleading shareholders. I wonder what other laws they are   breaking? They knowingly hire illegals with impunity and what else are they up   to?
            When the senate passed a bill opposite what the american people wanted and what the business interest are.When it is good for CEOs and not good for national security and the country. It is time for reform
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Every once in a blue moon someone in Congress  (usually Congressman Ron Paul
of Texas) proposes a law or resolution that would  actually improve the prosp
ects for human liberty and prosperity. It’s rare,  but not nonexistent. One
such case is Senate Joint Resolution 35, introduced  into the U.S. Senate on
April 28, 2004, which was recently brought to my  attention by Laurence Vance.

S.J. Res. 35 reads: "Resolved . . . . The  seventeenth article of amendment
to the Constitution of the United States is  hereby repealed." That’s
Section 1. Section 2 reads that "The Senate of the  United States shall be composed
of two Senators from each State, chosen by the  legislature thereof, for six
years . . ."

This was the original design of  the founding fathers; U.S. senators were not
directly elected by the voting  public until 1914. Thus, S.J. Res. 35
proposes a return to founding principles  and is therefore a most revolutionary idea.
A good overview of the history of  the Seventeenth Amendment is Ralph A.
Rossum’s book, Federalism, the Supreme  Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment.
Rossum correctly points out that the  system of federalism or "divided
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