Friday, January 21, 2011
The pre-17th senate returns briefly
Oklahoma has now joined the set of lawsuits against the Infinite Profit For Insurance Companies Act of 2010 (aka Obamacare).
At this point, delegates of 28 state governments are taking official action against this law. 28 of 50 would be a nice majority in any functional legislature.
Before it was ruined by the 17th Amendment, the Senate performed this function. Each senator was appointed by the state legislature and thus served as a delegate from the state government. These delegates were mainly meant to analyze, revise, or stop the laws passed by the lower house.
After the 17th, the Senate turned into a second lower house, except with zero accountability. Senators no longer represented anything in particular, so they ended up representing only their own personal power-hunger.
To some extent the Supremes picked up the job of checking laws, but after the Supremes were taken over by Soviet Agent Earl Warren, they have mostly been writing laws to replace and wreck the Constitution.
It's sort of interesting to see an original legislative function popping to the surface again, even though it has to work outside the rotten structure of the legislature.
In modern America, valid and legal actions can only occur as temporary ad hoc workarounds. ¶ 5:13 PM
At this point, delegates of 28 state governments are taking official action against this law. 28 of 50 would be a nice majority in any functional legislature.
Before it was ruined by the 17th Amendment, the Senate performed this function. Each senator was appointed by the state legislature and thus served as a delegate from the state government. These delegates were mainly meant to analyze, revise, or stop the laws passed by the lower house.
After the 17th, the Senate turned into a second lower house, except with zero accountability. Senators no longer represented anything in particular, so they ended up representing only their own personal power-hunger.
To some extent the Supremes picked up the job of checking laws, but after the Supremes were taken over by Soviet Agent Earl Warren, they have mostly been writing laws to replace and wreck the Constitution.
It's sort of interesting to see an original legislative function popping to the surface again, even though it has to work outside the rotten structure of the legislature.
In modern America, valid and legal actions can only occur as temporary ad hoc workarounds. ¶ 5:13 PM
