House of Birgesses

[Keith Broaders]

In 1619 the 11 settlements in Virgina created the House of Burgesses to govern the Colony of Virginia.

Two of the most powerful men in each of the 11 plantations in Virginia were elected to represent the entire community and not individuals and families.T

The Senate in the House of Burgesses consisted of a panel of 6 men chosen by the Governor to be his personal advisors,

James Madison's believed that the Constitutiion was written to prevent a  majority from harming a minority.The purpose of having a bicameral legislature iwas to prevent a large body of uneducated voters from enacting laws that would benefit some of the people at the expemse of others..

With the ratification of the 17th Amendment our bicameral legislature was converted dinto a unicameral legislature with two chambers representing the same constituency.a

The representatives of the states who wrote the Constitution delegated to Congress a short list of powers  and promised in Article V that the states would never lose the right to be equally represented in the Senate without their consent.. 

That is exactly what happemed in 1913 when Cogress proposed the 17th Amendment, which essentially turned our bicameral legislature  into a unicameral legislature.

According to the provisions found in Article V Congress was prohibited from taking the states right to be equally represented in the senatewithout their consent.

The following states have never given their consent by ratifying the 17th Amendmen. should challenge the Constitutionality of the 17th Amendment and should refuse to comply with an amendment that violates the Constitution.

Utah, Florida ,Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky,  South Carolina and Virginia