Posted by
grad_1986 on Friday, January 15, 2010 2:21:26 PM
I just got done listening to Judge Napolitano's latest installment on the Constitution and Freedom. (I recommend all to go to the FoxNation website and check them out. You will learn so much you were not taught in school). In the latest one, the judge lays out why our Constitution originally had the Senators being appointed by the State legislatures rather than by popular vote. What this amendment did was it did an end-run around the states themselves and removed their voice from the federal government altogether. We forget that the states created the federal government and NOT the other way around. By having the state government elect their senators to represent THEM in Washington, they could hold the federal government in check. If for example, the Fed's wanted to take over how the states ran their schools, the states could prevent that takeover by telling their senators to vote against that power takeover. The senators worked for the STATES and not for the people in the states. By circumventing that method of election, the senators became subservient to the people and not to the state government. Therefore when the Feds took power away from the states, they could do NOTHING about it as they now have no voice in the federal government.
We need to repeal this amendment and give our states back their voice so they can take back the power that has been stolen from them over the last century.