A weak one will lose ground in every contest. The number of States which ratified did not total three-fourths of the States. This amendment, also, was erroneously, if not fraudulently, declared ratified. The Seventeenth amendment had a devastating effect upon the intended purpose of the Senate. It is now far more costly to become a Senator.
Senators are no longer accountable to States, but rather to special interests.
The States are no longer permitted their intended role in federal legislation. That subject will not be addressed in this book. With the Seventeenth Amendment the second link in the chain of debt and oppression was in place. The Senators who were to preside as midwives over the third and by far most devastating event, were no longer accountable to the States. Elected now by the people, they could not be told by their legislature how to vote.