Posted: 3/16/2015 1:01:00 PM EDT
...was a HUGE mistake.
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17A(Direct election of Senators) was the biggest mistake. /thread What about the income tax one, and the creation of the IRS? I honestly don't think we would have gotten to this point with the income tax were Senators still accountable to the states, and correspondingly the state legislatures still a direct link to federal legislation. The 16th amendment would have been either repealed or restricted under the additional scrutiny - That loss of state checks and balances on the federal process is the biggest travesty of the 17th amendment. |