The 17th Amendment

 

In April of 1913, Secretary of State, Philander Chase Knox, fraudulently declared the 17th Amendment to be ratified by a 3/4 majority of the states. Several scholars have studied this subject and have found that the 17th Amendment was never properly ratified.  This deceitful declaration has yet to face a serious challenge from the people, or the courts.

This illegal action fundamentally and forever, changed Article I, section 3 of our constitution, the section that allows the States to have a voice, appointed by their Legislature, to Congress, independent of the House of Representatives, the people's voice. It is wrong to eliminate that protection. The 17th Amendment does just that. This is fraudulent and unlawful!!

It's time to throw out the trash, the 17th Amendment has got to go.

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  • Morton,  I agree with what you say about the 17th Amendment, but I can't see any hope for going back to the original procedure of State-appointed Senators unless we approach it differently from what I have seen mentioned here.  Nobody cares if it was fraudulently implemented.  We must consider what it would take to get State Governments to WANT it back.  Consider this:  Apparently, and awfully sadly, we have 13 or more States with Governments that want to go even DEEPER into the chaos of "democracy" by changing State Election law to force the State Electors to vote for the Candidate that garners the most popular votes nationwide.    In other words the States do not WANT any States' Rights.  They would subvert the votes of their own state citizens to achieve the nationwide Democracy goal.  We need some heavy discussion on this topic.  The last vestige of the Electoral College is about to disappear due to this craze for "democracy."  So look at the Constitution.  It looks like this.:

    I was solicited to sign a petition for ending the Electoral College; a U.S. House Representative emailed me, asking me to sign it, but I decided to read what the Constitution says about the Electoral College.  I am now highly perturbed.  Article II and Amendment XII are worded such that we citizens cannot vote on who is to be president and vice president.  Our two-party system stages a massive POPULARITY vote-getting contest, that makes us vote, but we are not Constitutionally allowed to vote on a President and a VP. How so?  The Electoral College ELECTORS are supposed to SEAL their own individually chosen nominations in envelopes and let the Senate and House open them and immediately chuse (that is how they spelled it originally) a President and Vice President. The Electors DO NOT vote.  They simply put names in envelopes and the top three are the only ones to be considered, and the HOUSE is to vote, with each state having only one vote.  This “sealed, signed, and delivered” procedure would heal our nation of this divisiveness. So what happened to make us not do that?  I think people would be happy to not have this mudslinging contest; I know I would.  The House would just pick a President, and we would get on with life.  Let's go back to that and end the divided emotions everyone is burdened with.  Let me cut to the chase.  The Party struggle for the White House has whipped this up to an approximately two-year long media campaign for a four-year office term; therefore, this nation spends half its time railing about who should be President.  In recent years, however it is worse, we are spending the full four years in a media rant about even whether the elected one should be President—what an awful way to run our political lives!  Let’s hear some serious discussion.

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