1913 Change to Constitution Wrong for America - Today's fundamental Transformation is Wrong Too!

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I heard an analogy today. It was an analogy that describes the state of the union as it is progressing.


America, we must wake up.   Changes made not just today, but way back in 1913 are hurting us.  There is a movement (Progressive) that is going to fundamentally transform, that IS transforming America...the America I love!  We've got to take back our power as ruling citizens of this  nation,   There's a few pitting us against ourselves while they run away with our inalienable rights.  With the mounting debt, and the increasing droves of government dependants, we are slowly selling ourselves into financial slavery.   Maybe I'm overdoing it a bit, but  you think about that as the senate passes bills that cost billions and trillions.... let it sink in.

Here is an interesting item: Prior to 1913, the states legislatures chose the states senators as per the constitution. This has changed. Here is the citation:


Section 3: Senate

[edit] Clause 1: Composition; Election of Senators

“ The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote. ”


Section Three provides that each state is entitled to two Senators chosen for a term of six years. The state legislatures originally chose the Senators. This provision has been superseded by the Seventeenth Amendment, which provides for the direct election of Senators by the respective states' voters.

Generally, Article V requires that a proposal to amend the Constitution garner a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress, and then be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. This clause of Article I, §3, is one of a handful on which Article V places special restrictions to be amended. In this case, Article V provides that "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." Thus, no individual state may have its representation in the Senate adjusted without its consent unless all other states have an identical change. That is to say, an amendment that changed this clause to provide that all states would get only 1 Senator (or 3 Senators, or any other number) could be ratified through the normal process, but an amendment that provided for some basis of representation other than strict numerical equality (for example, population, wealth, or land area) would require the assent of every state.
Wi should change this back to the way it was.