Hello 17th Amendment -- Goodbye Republic

Having the same constituency, with no substantive difference between the House and the Senate, both bodies began focusing on the short-range politics of confiscation and redistribution, and of preferential treatment of selected individuals and groups.

Jim Moore

This is one of the best articles on this subject I've seen recently. This is one of the most important topics on the Constitution that I can think of. In my opinion, we cannot survive as a nation unless we recover the structure and ideals that the founders laid out for us.