No coincidence was passed same years as income tax and the central bank. All 3 ended the Republic as we knew it.
17th made it much easier for special interests including foreign to buy off favorable policy from 60 senators instead of having to go state to state which is more costly. And Senate approved judges and executive appointments and ratifies treaties.
Effects of 17th in concert with 16th and central bank have been devastating.
Think of alt history, we prob would have been colonizing mars already
No coincidence was passed same years as income tax and the central bank. All 3 ended the Republic as we knew it. 17th made it much easier for special interests including foreign to buy off favorable policy from 60 senators instead of having to go state to state which is more costly. And Senate approved judges and executive appointments and ratifies treaties. Effects of 17th in concert with 16th and central bank have been devastating. Think of alt history, we prob would have been colonizing mars already
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