Friday, July 20, 2012

The Eighteenth Amendment is a good example of this

Other Progressive brainstorms gave us the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution resulting in federal income tax. The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote and removed the only true representation that the sovereign states had at the federal level. If a Senator was beholden to the state legislators who had selected him or her to serve, they would be less likely to support a federal program which appropriated the resources of their state. After the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, the members of the U.S. Senate became a de facto House of Lords; counselors to the imperial Presidency and answerable to none.
The Progressives also gave us the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which co-opted the federal governments constitutionally mandated function of managing the monetary supply and policies of the nation and effectively turning it over to a private banking cartel, which wrote banking regulations with the force of law.

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