Direct Election of Senators is Unconstitutional

[Keith Broaders]

The Direct Election of Senators is Unconstitutional

In Article IV the Constitution demands that we have a republican form of government and the direct election of senators violates that prohibition.

In Article V the Constitutions guarantees that no state shall be denied their equal suffrage in the senate without their consent. Only 36 of the states when the amendment was proposed ratified the amendment while 12 states didn't vote to surrender their Constitutional right to be represented in the senate. The only way the amendment could have been lawfully ratified is if all of the 48 states had voted in favor of ratification.

Today the following state's Constitutional right to represented in the senate is being violated.

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

States that have ratified the 17th Amendment should rescind their vote in favor of ratification and join seven states that refused to give their consent b ratifying the 17th Amendment. The Constitution guarantees that no state can be compelled to surrender their right to be represented in senate unless all of the states give their consent.

Delaware voted against ratification in 1913, bur in 2010 Delaware state legislature ratified the 17th Amendment. States have a right to give their consent, and they also have a right to withdraw their consent.

It cost over a million dollars in campaign contributions to get electd to the Senate. Most of these funds come from, Wall Street Bankers and  Corporations. The Senators no longer represent the people of their state, they reprent the financial elute that fund their campaigns.