It seems so. Either that, or we’re existence deliberately miseducated almost them. The next “tweet,” past times a legacy media functionary, is what’s currently stuck inwards my craw:
[The tweet ikon inwards a higher house was provided past times Mike Hendrix.]
It’s possible that this...person has no agenda. As he plant for NBC, that’s dubious, but nosotros must let for the possibility. But produce y'all recall he’s always read the Constitution of the United States?
ARTICLE V: The Congress, whenever 2 thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall suggest Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of 2 thirds of the several States, shall telephone telephone a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, inwards either Case, shall last valid to all Intents as well as Purposes, equally part of this Constitution, when ratified past times the Legislatures of 3 fourths of the several States, or past times Conventions inwards 3 fourths thereof, equally the ane or the other Mode of Ratification may last proposed past times the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may last made prior to the Year One G viii hundred as well as viii shall inwards whatsoever Manner deport upon the commencement as well as 4th Clauses inwards the Ninth Section of the commencement Article; as well as that no State, without its Consent, shall last deprived of its equal Suffrage inwards the Senate. [Emphasis added, equally the Framers knew rattling lilliputian HTML]
The presence of that clause inwards Article V, the Amendment Article, excludes the equal representation of the states inwards the Senate from the possibility of amendment. This is beyond dispute. The Senate, inwards other words, was created to guarantee that each solid soil would convey a vocalism inwards the Senate equal to whatsoever other state. The electoral organisation for choosing a president reinforces this oft-neglected facial expression of the Constitution: it was intended to protect the small-scale states from abuses perpetrated past times the large ones.
The phrase “checks as well as balances” should come upward to heed at this point. My Gentle Readers convey no doubtfulness been muttering that phrase for approximately fourth dimension already. Lesser intellects mightiness consider suing their civics teachers.
The Framers knew total good what they were doing. The rattling concluding passage of the Constitution emphasizes the importance of the states equally elements inwards the Constitutional design:
ARTICLE VII: The Ratification of the Conventions of ix States, shall last sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution betwixt the States then ratifying the Same.
The Constitution was conceived as well as ratified equally a compact amid the states. The states retained nearly consummate internal sovereignty. Their equal representation inwards the Senate was intended, inwards part, to save that sovereignty, the exclusions inwards Article I, Section 10 existence the sole exceptions. This facial expression of the Constitution’s blueprint is sometimes cited equally an declaration for a state’s ability to nullify federal laws on the grounds of federal overreach.
The federal authorities has done many unConstitutional as well as extra-Constitutional things since the Wilson Administration. Some of them convey been undeniable encroachments on solid soil sovereignty. (Where, for example, is Congress given the ability to legislate a federal penal code? But that’s a dependent plain for approximately other day.) This latest beak – of amending a part of the Constitution explicitly protected against amendment! — only indicates how far Americans’ cognition of the deliberately designed-in features of our Union has slipped.
Perhaps I should concur classes.
