Federalizing The V**e (Page 4): 1. Concerning senators -Your opinion and nothing more . You’re certainly entitled to an opinion 2. You haven’t found anything to support your claim of...

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

Blurryeyed wrote:

Did you read this passage from Wiki Denny? br br... (show quote)

1. Concerning senators -Your opinion and nothing more . You’re certainly entitled to an opinion

2. You haven’t found anything to support your claim of taking “ total control of e******ns” because there isn’t any. The law does however ensure v**ers equal protection under the law protected.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

DennyT wrote:

1. Concerning senators -Your opinion and nothing more . You’re certainly entitled to an opinion

2. You haven’t found anything to support your claim of taking “ total control of e******ns” because there isn’t any. The law does however ensure v**ers equal protection under the law protected.

Really Denny, and how much say will the state legislatures have if the federal law passes? What about b****t harvesting and federal financing laws, what about flooding communities with excess b****ts as they are sent out to v**ers who did not even request them, will politicians still have access to their federally funded campaign coffers after they have left office? You are wrong Denny, it is federal overreach and a further t******r of p***r to the federal government.

Here is a passage from "Globocop" a history book that you have not read I am sure.

"The 17th Amendment also became law in 1913. The two new amendments were perfect expressions of the new America. The 16th gave government the money to grow. The 17th was one of many steps to centralize government power. It makes for direct e******n of senators rather than having them chosen by state legislatures. At first blush, that seems irreproachable, democracy in action. In actuality, it increases the distance between power and the people. It sacrifices state power to federal power. It diminishes power that is closer to the people and increases power that is farther. It helps trivialize state legislatures and magnify the national legislature, even to the point, we can now see, of making it a de facto world government."

Ledbetter, Mark David. Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way (Kindle Locations 2079-2084). Lulu Press. Kindle Edition.

pendennis

DennyT wrote:

In other words you don’t know !!
Unless you consider such. Things as the federal gov making it a law that women can v**e.

You don’t have a clue why it is assumed to be federalizing the e******n.

Normally, I don't reply to posts too far "up the discussion", but the Federal government did not "make a law that women can v**e".

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted universal suffrage. While proposed by two-thirds of the members of Congress, it was ratified by three-fourths of the SEVERAL STATES. The added language of,

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"Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

added to the verbiage was standard after the 14th Amendment was proposed.

pendennis

DennyT wrote:

But no where in any reading does it say that senators. Represent the states? No where ?
As I said earlier anyone that trust state legislators to select senators is a fool. That was true when the senatorial se******n process was changed than it us today .

You could make more convincing arguments if you studied the history of the U.S. Constitution. Get a copy of "The Federalist (Papers)". It provides a very detailed argument for adoption of the Founders' efforts. You may even want to read the "Anti-Federalist", a lesser known publication, which attempted to counter the original essays.

Bazbo Loc: Lisboa, Portugal

Blurryeyed wrote:

BS Baz, the federal government has taken over almost every aspect of American life and now you have Biden picking up where Obama left off in an attempt at taking control over local police departments. The 10th Amendment is for all practical purposes dead, the civil war may have been about a lot of things but it was not about the destruction of federalism.

It was the destruction of "sovereign" states, not Federalism. There is a reason that poll taxes in the Southern States were eliminated. Care to guess hat they were? Here is a hint: the States of the old Confederacy did not eliminate them on them own. Let me know if you ned any more hints.

Since you want to slither away from my questions--let me ask again. You think the V****g Rights Act was a bad idea? Would you like to bring back Jim Crow?