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Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry earlier this week supported a resolution that would repeal the 17th Amendment and strip American voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators.

The joint resolution, introduced by Texas Congressman Keith Self, aims to “restore the Founders’ original vision for the United States” and return the selection of senators to state legislatures.

“Our Founding Fathers designed the Senate to protect state sovereignty and act as a check on federal overreach. If senators are supposed to represent their states, then the states should choose them. Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,” Self said.

  • Asafum
    36·
    2 days ago

    Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,

    …That’s what voting does you lying piece of shit. You just want permanent Republican control of the Senate, you never want to have a Democrat senator be able to exist in a “red” state which generally makes up the majority of states. Fucking asshole.

  • blueworld@piefed.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    The 17th Amendment wasn’t some progressive power grab. It was the system self-correcting after decades of obvious, documented corruption. Nine states had already moved effective to popular election through binding primaries before 1913.

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    Translation - why should all that donor money go to campaigns and advertising when it could be going to bribes to state legislators instead?

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    13·
    2 days ago

    Uh oh, did the poll numbers for the Texas senate election send them into panic mode? Or do they want to pick someone other than Paxton because he’s not sufficiently pliable?