Monday, May 18, 2009

States Must Force 17th Amendment Showdown

States Must Force 17th Amendment Showdown; Daily Paul

Note to reader: I have the same article posted to the side panel of the blog a while ago. I consider it one of the essential articles one needs to read to become acquainted with the 17th Amendment repeal issue. I hope the readers and staff at the Daily Paul will check out the others I have posted as well.

Check out this 2005 article by Devvy Kidd titled "States Must Force 17th Amendment Showdown": http://www.worldnetdaily....

It argues that the 17th amendment was never properly ratified, and thus is invalid. Devvy calls on state legislatures to force a legal battle over the issue by appointing two senators and sending them to D.C. to be seated. Of course, there will already be two popularly elected senators present, so the issue will then be thrust into the national spotlight (and hopefully a court room) where the evidence can be presented. If the legislature were to win and prove that the 17th amendment was fraudulently ratified, the Senate would once again be placed under the control of the state legislatures.

A legislature attempting this is sure to strike fear into the heart of Washington D.C. During this era when the state sovereignty movement is growing, now seems like the perfect time to go for it. I say we start e-mailing the legislatures of states that have already passed a sovereignty resolution (and if it only passed one chamber of the legislature, just e-mail that chamber): http://www.tenthamendment...

Here's a bunch of the e-mail addresses: http://reformedapologian....

The question is, would any legislature be brave enough to do this?

1 comment:

Rick said...

I am surprised that no comments have been posted to this fine article. This is a subject I have thought about for some time. Senators elected by the people, who already have a forum representing them in the House, are more loyal to their political party than their states. I googled "Seventeenth Amendment" which brought me to your blog. I am researching info to post something similar to my 'pro-life constitutional issues blog. The Seventeenth Amendment is germaine to the unconstitutional decision by the Supreme court in the 'Roe v Wade' decision, usurping the state's rights in determining that abortion, as well as murder, robberty, etc., should be determined by each state. Keep up the good work.
Rick