Rye Miles #13621
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Yep I found this, you beat me to it.
Senators of the United States Congress were originally chosen by state legislatures. Citizens would vote for their state legislators, and those legislators would vote a man into the U.S. Senate.How were U.S. Senators originally chosen?
At the beginning of the 20th century, though, many states had begun to use the popular vote to elect U.S. Senators. But it wasn't a direct election; the election appeared on ballots as a referendum, and the results of that referendum were then confirmed by the state legislature.
In 1913, however, the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution standardized the popular election of Senators throughout the entire country. The Seventeenth Amendment also gave a state's acting governor the power to appoint someone to the U.S. Senate in the event of a vacancy.
Because this amendment gives a single individual the power to appoint a U.S. Senator, many states' rights advocates have called for a repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. They argue that this gubernatorial power bypasses the democratic process.
Although it's easy to see how such power could be misused (consider the recent scandal involving Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich), it can be wielded to create change for the better. For example, five of the first six women to serve in the U.S. Senate were appointed to that position by their state governors.
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1 hour ago, Texas Joker said:
Term limit is called voting. Senate WAS written into constitution as States Representative, populous was House of Reps. Senators were not supposed to be popular votes they were supposed to be appt by the State.
So when did that change? I don’t think that was ever written. You said they were "supposed" to be appointed by the state but where is that actually written in the Constitution?
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1 minute ago, J.C. Bell, SASS #15217 said:
How much money was taken from taxpayers who disagree with this to pay for it? Where's their freedom of expressions (speech)?
Good point!!!
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11 hours ago, watab kid said:
ill also point out that our professional politicians were never intended by the forefathers , they wanted them to be common men willing to volunteer to lead ,
If they intended that then why didn't they write it in the Constitution? They had to know that some people would make careers out of being a politician otherwise they would have written in term limits, but they didn't! Hmmm......
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Why do we allow them to have this? Someone should destroy it like they're doing with statues of our Founders and generals etc! This always pi&^ed me off!
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50 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:
One of the most interesting characters of the Old West Read the book "DOC" by Mary Doria Russell. It's great!
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Solar eclipse glasses are only about $5.00, why bother with a pinhole cardboard higamajig?
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56 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:
let us hope it remains "only a movie "
CB
If not I wanna be on the side with the guns!!
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9 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Very sad and extremely depressing to think this could ever happen in the U.S.
Really have to think is a movie like this something that is needed?
Well we’ve had disaster movies before, Red Dawn, Independence Day, hurricane and earthquake movies etc etc. It’s only a movie!
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Damn!! I thought $3.30 was high!!
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But this is SOLAR ECLIPSE Monday!!
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She’s famous alright!
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26 minutes ago, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:
We've BEEN in a (mostly) civil war (sometimes UNcivil) for quite a while. We're just not shooting (much) yet.......
Yep, up to this point it’s been “civil”
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New word for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,,,,,,
Newcomers
This administration came up with that one!
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Congratulations Great Gramps!!!
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18 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
If the report is correct, she HAD some dough.
Her parents were not exactly rich but they certainly weren’t poor. She went to a private school.
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Meanwhile she’s got some dough
https://www.thelist.com/388507/greta-thunbergs-net-worth-the-activist-is-worth-more-than-you-think/
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AMERICA
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2 minutes ago, Chantry said:
Longer than that, it's just more out in the open and it's going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever does.
Both parties are drifting farther and farther apart and both sides are increasingly unwilling to compromise with each other.
I somewhat agree but there’s a few democrats that are leaving the party or at least openly disagreeing with the policies . I think the farther left they go you’ll see more dems leave.
Same thing if it went too far right.
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I had to replace my hot water tank after only 8 years, it was leaking from the bottom, it was a piece of junk. Hopefully the one I got is better so I was told. I stayed with the old natural gas whole house heater. The tankless option was way more expensive and since I’m by myself I didn’t think I needed it.
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Battle of the Eclipse
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There's people here in Northeast Ohio that are smack in the middle of the path and they're renting spots on their front lawns for $50!!!