Repeal the 17th Amendment

There's a lot going on in the nation today, a movement to limit the power of the federal government and bring more liberty back to the individual. Whether you are a Tea Partier, a libertarian, an Austrian economist, a member of the Tenther movement, or are just sick and tired of the big government role we have been subjected to today, we should try to realize where it may have all went wrong. There are lessons in history and the passage of the 17th Amendment may have started our country on the wrong path towards absolute tyranny by the feds over the states. This article by The Free Press is a must read.

Prior to the ratification of the seventeenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States in 1913, senators were appointed by state legislatures. Since then, senators, like representatives, have been directly elected by the voters in their states. Many wonder why this wasn’t always the case, and why the framers of the Constitution did not establish the direct election of senators in the first place. However, as we will see, the reasoning behind having senators appointed by state legislatures was quite simple; it was another check on the growth of the federal government....