Hi,
I'm concerned about ever increasing federal power. I think the best way to thwart the flow of power to the central government is to repeal the part of the 17th amendment that allows the election of US Senators by the people instead of the state houses. The major argument against this (or at least the one I have heard) is that the state houses were corrupt when they elected the Senators. Well, they could not have been more corrupt than Washington is now. Also, state houses are much easier for the people to clean up than the corrupt bureaucracies and legislature in Washington where we have very little power. State Senators and Congressmen actually live in our neighborhoods and represent far fewer people than federal Senators and Congressmen. They are much easier to monitor and control. The states are becoming more and more impotent and the balance of power in our federated system is moving too much to the center.
I think we should promote this idea and put it out there for the people to think about. The people are upset (to put it lightly) with the incredibly powerful, unresponsive, inefficient, and corrupt federal government. We need to strike while public opinion is open to solutions. This would fix so many of our problems by giving states more of their sovereignty back and moving government closer to the people. There are very few (if any) sound arguments against this idea, and when they are raised we could easily defeat them. We must convince the people that this is the single most powerful and effective action we can take to save our republic.
