The Direct Election of Senators is Unconstitutional
In Article IV the Constitution demands that we have a republican form of government and the direct election of senators violates that prohibition.
In Article V the Constitutions guarantees that no state shall be denied their equal suffrage in the senate without their consent. Only 36 of the states when the amendment was proposed ratified the amendment while 12 states didn't vote to surrender their Constitutional right to be represented in the senate. The only way the amendment could have been lawfully ratified is if all of the 48 states had voted in favor of ratification.
Today the following state's Constitutional right to represented in the senate is being violated.
- Florida,
- Georgia,
- Mississippi,
- Kentucky,
- South Carolina,
- Virginia,
- Utah
States that have not ratified the 17th Amendment should not be compelled to surrender the representation in the
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