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Fix states' rights first.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
The article "No Child Left Unbrainwashed" (April 19 issue) is about yet another unconstitutional act of Congress. The article suggests that we contact our congressmen about reversing this act and of course we should. But I would like to point out that in this we are being asked to use the methods of democracy to try and keep a damaged republic intact. My one objection to this and other articles that speak of the feds overstepping their constitutional bounds is that these articles fail to point out the fundamental problem that allows this unchecked expansion of federal power to take place.
We have state legislatures resorting to passing toothless, impotent resolutions against outrageous federal intrusions into state affairs. The underlying problem as I see it is that state governments have no voice in Congress. They lost it with the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913. Originally, the Senate was intended to be the voice of state governments in Congress. Making the senators' appointment a matter of popular vote, as the 17th Amendment has done, leaves them unaccountable to their state government. With their six-year terms, and representing ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Fix states' rights first.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)