States and Counties are No Longer Represented

[Keith Broaders]

States and Counties are No Longer Represented

The first step in restoring a republican form of government is to restore the representation of the counties and the states..

The states lost their suffrage in the senate with the unlawful ratification of the 17th Amendment and the counties lost their representation in the states thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1960's/

To have a true bicameral legislature with meaningful  representation and checks and balances you need to have two separate legislative houses with two different constituencies.We now have a unicameral legoslature with two houses reprenting the financial interests of the financial elite in both the U.S. and state senates.

The Seante used to represent all of the 7,363 elected  representatives in the state legislatures who speak for  over 300,000,000 people. 

Thanks to the efforts of Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow Sipreme Court clowns they exceeded their constitutional authority and destroyed the checks and balances that had existed in the legislatures of the states.

The rural counties lost their voice and became the victim of a tyranny of the majority.

In Article I Section 4 it clearly delegates to the states the authoruty orgamize their legislative bodies and the Supreme Court had no Constitutional authority to compel the states to discontinue allowing their counties to be represented in the state's legislature.

The Court ruled that the represrntation in the upper houses of the state legislatures was over represented and that representation in both of the state's  twp houses needed to be based on population.

They reasoned that it was constitutional for the states to be equally represented in the senate, but it was uncomstititional for the counties to be equally represnted in the  states.

Without this important check, tthe  rural counties are destined to be gpverned by the the will of the majority of people living in thr counties with the largest populations.

The founders wanted the states to be represented in the U.S. Senate and the Counties to be represented in the states. 

This change made it possible for the large cities and counties to completely dominate the smaller rural communities. With the original model, both the House and the Senate would need to agree before legislative actions could be taken.

In essence, the  opinion of the Supreme Court disenfranchised the rural counties and made the tyranny of the majority possible.

Supreme Court decisions are not laws, they are merely the opinions of a panel of unelected and unaccountable lawyers.

Every state has a right to be represented in the U.S. Senate and every County has a right to be represented in the legislatures of the states