Issue Position: Seventeenth Amendment

Issue Position

Violation of the Republic

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution was and still is a huge violation of the Republican ideals that this country was founded on. The constitution is NOT a living breathing document, to contrary its a strict guideline that has to be followed.

When the states got together, they together formed the federal government with very limited and set powers to which they chained to it the constitution, reserving the rest of the powers to themselves and to the people.

Senators are in the strict sense of it, the states ambassadors to the federal government, they represent the interest of the states at the federal level and were appointed by the state governments. Their job, among other things, is to ensure that the interest of their state is represented and that the states power to govern themselves is not violated.

The fear of not being reappointed and receiving the displeasure of the state legislatures kept the senators in check, for if they were to not represent the best interest of the states they risked not being reappointed. Today what has happened as a result of the seventeenth amendment is the senators are now only answerable to the populace of their respective states and with the populations being large and widespread, it has become very difficult to hold senators to their actions.

WE MUST, return the power to appoint senators to the states and their legislatures in our effort to restore this republic.

As Congressman

He will propose legislation to overturn the seventeenth amendment
"the purpose of state-appointed senators is to "defend themselves (states) against the encroachment of national government."

James Madison, father of our constitution

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