Commentary On Elections-Part Sixteen

The second sentence in the first clause of the U.S. Constitution's 17th Amendment expresses that voters for U.S. Senate should meet the same criteria of requirements as voters for the lower house of their state legislature.

Even though the 17th Amendment was passed nearly half a century after the end of the US Civil War and after the passage of the 14th Amendment, so was the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment (income tax amendment). The laws are really draconian and are in violation of the Representarian ideals. The laws confer too much authority to the federal government and to the private entities it delegates its functions. The federal government should not able to tax all income at will and it certainly should never possess the authority to delegate its functions to any private entity.

The 17th Amendment itself should be repealed. It should be overturned. The state legislatures should select U.S. Senators as they must be more insulated from the People than both federal legislative lower house members and state lawmakers.

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