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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flybeech" data-source="post: 2071438" data-attributes="member: 7557">Perhaps my view is a bit simplistic, but before the 17th, the Framers wanted to ensure the balance of power and safeguard the Republic of sovereign states. Congress was intentionally intended to be directly elected by the people, with districts expanding as each one reached <a href="http://thirty-thousand.org/" target="_blank">30,000</a>. All the ideas would emerge from Congress and sent to the Senate, who's main intent was to ensure the sovereignty of the State was protected, because the state was in a sense, a living person.Direct election of the Senate ensured that the sovereign state was no longer represented, allowing an effective shift of power from the State as an autonomous entity represented in the Senate, to the direct election allowing a march toward central control and en end of the Tenth Amendment. In my view, 1913 was a particularly bad year for the Federation with the creation of the private Federal Reserve Bank, the establishment of the Federal income tax and creation of the IRS as the collection agency for the private Federal Reserve Bank and of course, the Federal Reserve Act, which surrendered all monetary matters to private bankers allowed to create money from thin air, backed with nothing, at interest and accountable to no one.</blockquote>