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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 3007304" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>The Founding Fathers didn't want the "average joe(SIC)" to vote for or elect a senator. This being a republic, the Senate is supposed to be comprised of councilors. (The definition of a senator back when the Constitution was written was "a public councilor".) Each state was to select 2 public councilors(senators) to have seats in the senate, with one vote each. Basically, the senators represented the legislatures of the several states, selected by the legislature of the respective states. As it stands right now, thanks to the Seventeenth Amendment, we have two houses of representatives. This has caused the several states to lose sovereignty and power to the Feral Government.</p><p></p><p>Direct election of senators is one of the alterations to our system of government that has impaired the energy of the system.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: brown"> <em> "One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown...." </em> </span> George Washington, from his farewell address.</p><p></p><p>Woody</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 3007304, member: 745"] The Founding Fathers didn't want the "average joe(SIC)" to vote for or elect a senator. This being a republic, the Senate is supposed to be comprised of councilors. (The definition of a senator back when the Constitution was written was "a public councilor".) Each state was to select 2 public councilors(senators) to have seats in the senate, with one vote each. Basically, the senators represented the legislatures of the several states, selected by the legislature of the respective states. As it stands right now, thanks to the Seventeenth Amendment, we have two houses of representatives. This has caused the several states to lose sovereignty and power to the Feral Government. Direct election of senators is one of the alterations to our system of government that has impaired the energy of the system. [color=brown] [i] "One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown...." [/i] [/color] George Washington, from his farewell address. Woody [/QUOTE]
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