Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:05 pm
What do the Founding Fathers have to do with the 17th Amendment?
Are you that dense?Mikey wrote:What do the Founding Fathers have to do with the 17th Amendment?
Oh, I forgot.
The short version is that it invalidates one of the primary Seperation of Powers components, the seperation between state and federal governments. It is no coincidence that power has been increasingly vested in the central government since then.