17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution."
17th Amendment Subversion
The founding fathers designed the Constitution so that capricious and arbitrary changes would be difficult, at best, to bring forth. The amendment process is detailed and excessive in its requirements, and as a result of this preventative device, relatively few alterations in our founding document have been made since America’s inception.
The 17th Amendment changed the method for the selection of United States Senators, causing them to be chosen via popular election instead of being appointed by the legislatures of the individual states. The argument that was advanced in favor of this notable change was that under the original format, senators were too prone and susceptible to corrupting influences. In reality, this was nothing more than a ploy to strip the states of the substantial power that was granted to them by virtue of their control of the highly influential Senate. The genius of our constitutional republic lies in the concept of separation of powers, which happened to suffer a fatal blow through the supposed passage of the 17th Amendment.
Like the 16th Amendment, the 17th also failed to undergo proper ratification procedures at the state level. It too, however, was summarily and incorrectly declared to have been ratified by the notorious Philander Knox. In his exhaustive and meticulous research, former Illinois Revenue Department criminal investigator Bill Benson amassed mountainous evidence that not one single state properly ratified this bogus amendment.
In order to restore the balance of power in our national government it will be necessary for the states to once again become empowered. For this to happen the debilitating effects of the 17th Amendment must be negated and the best place to begin this battle is the unveiling of the evidence that clearly establishes the fraudulent nature of what the ignorant populace assumes to be a legitimate addendum to the supreme law of the land.
