Thomas DiLorenzo - The 17th Amendment

[Bigturns33]

Should be played in every civics classroom.

[sniped101]

What happened to the american people? Why have we become so weak?!?!

[UnoRaza]

It's astonishing that I'm just hearing about this!?! THANKS! *Sub'd

My fault, but I have so many channels to which I subscribe, I'm amazed NONE of them sent this out.

[jlott00]

great video,

[JiveDadson]

The 17th amendment is itself unconstitutional. The provision for amending the constitution (Article V) requires "that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." The 17th amendment completely deprived every State of all suffrage, and handed the suffrage over to the people residing within the jurisdictions of the States. Not every State ratified the amendment. Therefore the amendment is rightfully null.

[816cameron]

Lets see, the astroturf constitutionalists Talibaggers want to:

Repeal the 17th Amendment, Repeal the 14th Amendment, Repeal the 16th Amendment, Introduce a Gay Marriage Band Amendment, now against the 1st amendment with the Mosque in NYC. Yeah, the party that hasn't brain, but need "2nd amendment remedies" to get what they want.

[Aryaba]

@816cameron There you go voicing your incorrect prejudices again.

[Debatewithme]

@816cameron hmmm...

[rentslave]

There are 15 Jews in the US Senate;none before this Amendment.Draw your own conclusions.

[CountArtha]

@rentslave About the Amendment, or about you? :P

[robertmike57]

Repeal 17th amendment= Darkies have too much power, white people in crooked state legislative bodies can fix that.

[nicmart]

State legislators are no more responsive to the people, or protective of their rights, than are members of congress.

[whittvet]

@nicmart True, but they are a lot closer to feel the heat

[rentslave]

@nicmart It's hard to argue against that,but at least Jews wouldn't have 15 members in the Senate.Israel will get us all killed yet.Why should they pay for lobbyists when they have Frank Lautenberg?

[jefevonQ]

Reform the election process. No more commercials or other types of ads. Take the money out of it. Eliminate lobbying. We don't (or shouldn't) need the twisted, emotional crap to make a decision.Make sure their voting records are easily accessible along with their personal and professional affiliations. Make a decision on the person, not their opposition.

[jasonfulton]

its not just the consevatives its the liberals also.both parties.the people can repeal the 17th amendment with a popular vote

[Rico8458]

we are now a corporate fascist state. the small man has no chance here today. our fed courts are corrupt.

[PR13STG0RD0]

Nothing is sacred to profiteers. If they can destroy the world's first and only free nation for selfish ends, they will. Their family's names will bear great dishonor forever.

[jefevonQ]

Why do you think we need more regulation of financial entities in this country! The corporate/investment world is bound to be the down fall of this nation as an overall prosperous group of free people. It isn't the right wing or the left wing. Any one seeking/in/recently out of public office needs to be monitored as far as their contacts.

[PR13STG0RD0]

Right. It seems that the biggest problem is the laws are being overlooked and slighted to bend to their wills. we can legislate the perfect laws, but the guys we need to enforce them against simply buy their way through them without penalty. That seems to be the real problem.

[jefevonQ]

We are going about this the wrong way.

[PR13STG0RD0]

It would seem that the right way would be to pick up the slack and arrest these people despite their financial power.

How many people can we get on our side to do that? Turn down bribes and punish them? Most people from beat cop to court justice to politicians are too busy looking out for their own to look the other way, and that's where the playing field is to the rich.

Remember the Milion Dollar man (WWF wrestler)?

"Everybody's got a price!"

[gregvs3]

@jefevonQ @jefevonQ No, that won't do it. As long as government + corporate interests are able to work together, they will find a way around it. What needs to be done is the power of the government must be severely restricted, so there will be no benefit for the corporations to buy them off, and the government cannot do ANYONE'S bidding... be they marxists, fascists, the christian right, corporations, etc.

[xaviqaz]

A Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy

[Aryaba]

@xaviqaz Technically a Constitution-based federal republic.

[steve0281]

The 17th Amendment turned the states into provinces subordinate to the Federal government. Instead of being a check on power by the states now senators are tyrants. Di Fi and Barbara Boxer are perfect examples.

[TooGoodToFail]

COOL

[Scoforever]

Great username at the moment.

[ifkbischoff]

Thank you for making the point. The founding fathers wanted the U.S. House to be the voice of the people and the U.S. Senate to be the voice of the individual, sovereign States. The 17th Amendment preempted this, and it is largely responsible for the economic and political situation in which we find ourselves today. Only the sovereign States can now save the Union from total disaster. Therefore, the 17th Amendment MUST BE REPEALED.

Ingo Bischoff, President, Economic Club of San Francisco

[hobosorter]

Thank you for this informative video. Much apperciated.