How the American Dream Has Become a Nightmare

[Keith Broaders]

At the Constitutional Convention the most hotly comstested debate was over how the states would be represented in Comgress.

Under the Articles of Comfederation all of the states were equally represented. The states like Virginia which had a large population believed that equal representation favored the small states and gave them an unfair advantage over the large states. James Madison proposed a plan that became known as tthe Virginia Plan which allocated seats in the House of Representatives to be based on the state's population.

The Virginia Plan favored the large states was unacceptable to the small states and neither side was wiling to budge.

Roger Sherman of Connecticut broke the deadlock when he proposed a compromise plan that would create a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on proportional representation and a Senate based on the  equal representation of the states..

This compromise prevented the states with large populations from completely dominating the small states. 

Each of the states proected the small rural counties from  a tyranny of the majority of the people living in the netropolitan counties with large populations.

 Creating a bicameral legislatire was designed to prevent the will of a majority ftom trampling on the God-Giving rights of the minority.

When  the 17th Amendment was fraudulently ratified the state legislatures lost their voice in the U.S. Senate which turned the our bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislatire with two houses representing the people.

In Article V there is an amendment protection clause stating  . . . . . .  no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

For the amendment to have been properly ratified all of the 48 states that existed when the amendment was proposed would have been needed to ratify the amendment. 

Seretary of State  Philander Knox declared the Seventeenth Amemdment had beem lawfully ratified even though 12 states had not given their consent.

In the 1960's the Supreme Court ruled that it was uncomstitutional for the counties to be equally represented in their state legislatures. The states could be equally represented in the U.S. Senate but, it was unconstitutional for the counties to be equally represented in the legislatures of the states. 

The Supreme Court rulings on apportionment in the legislatures of thee states was ourside of their Constitutional jurisdiction.

This legislative model prevented the large states from completely dominating the small states. 

All of the states adopted the same bicameral legislative model to protect their small rural counties from a tyranny of the larger metropolitan counties.

When  the 17th Amendment was fraudulently ratified the state legislatures lost their voice in the U.S. Senate which turned the our bicameral legislature into a unicameral legislatire with two houses representing the people.

In Article V there is an amendment protection clause stating  . . . . . .  no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

When the 17th Amendment was fraudulently ratified our bicameral legislature our republic became a democracy.