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Whatever melts your butter.well i have an example for him for both federal and state, ...he does not bother me.
i am still waiting for him to openly challenge me, on Madison creating the foundation of the constutution months before the constitutional convention.
The 17th is fine, we just need term limits.
we had build in term limits before the 17th, if you go back and look at history.. no state legislature kept sending back the same guy for the senate for decades.
its only after the 17th you start seeing long term senators, like robert byrd, of over 50 years.
but term limits are not going to solve the problem, we have to have a state voice back into government to put the federal governments powers back into check.
with the 17th , its moves us closer to democracy., which the founders did not want.
our government was created off of the roman republic, not the democracy of Greece.
john Adams in his works #6 states that if the roman style of government a were ever changed to a representative democracy, by allowing the people to vote for senators of the roman senate, it would be a terrible form of government, becuase it would become very factious, and in the end destroy itself.
So from what I see, the best form a handling the Senate would be having the Representatives vote for them? The House of Representatives would get term limits, so new ideas would certainly circulate, in the form of voting for Senators that fit the views of the Representatives.
you would vote for your state legislature, and they appoint a senator, so you are exercising a indirect vote for your senator, that senator acts in the interest of your state, to see the federal government does not violate your rights, and tax you, and does not step outside of the constitution., since that state power is there to keep the federal government in check.
this also makes people more inclined to vote in their state elections, and be more informed
you would vote for your state legislature, and they appoint a senator, so you are exercising a indirect vote for your senator,
Thank goodness Teddy Roosevelt got rid of that act of House Gerry-mandering with the 17th amendment..not gonna happen ernst..
Sounds like a personal problem.
are you asking on a state or federal level ..........or both?
Your personal problems are not the issue. Your failure to provide evidence of the people you support is.
Please provide data supporting the need to end the Senate.
Where did I advocate abolishing the US Senate? You need to check the poll and you will see I voted NO on the issue.
And yet again you attempt to move the goal posts to a new arena altogether since you are unable to post evidence supporting your previous posts supporting people who claim that the rights of the minority are taken away through the vote exercised by the majority.
That's what this thread is about, and the rest of us have been arguing against it. So obviously you must be arguing for it. So again, please provide the data to support your contention that the Senate should go.
Look at the poll with my answer to the poll question. I voted NO. Asking me to defend the opposite position is rather pointless. :roll:
Harry Reid. No, I don't think we should end the senate. Just Harry Reid. He already looks dead, anyway.Please provide data supporting the need to end the Senate.
Then why the **** have you been arguing with us? Move along.
Begin with the federal level as that information should be more widely available and known to more of us that some obscure state event..
Move along?!?!?!?! Who died and appointed you demigod over this place?
Still waiting for the evidence regarding the allegation that the majority votes to take away the rights of the minority. And a big clue for you - its NOT in the sacred federalist papers.
When did we get rulers?
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