Bill Thompson

And those articles eventually turned into what is the Constitution.

But the states had to grant that power.

And the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution knew.

that the states needed to be those small projects that we talked about before where if California wanted to go nuts, let them go nuts.

But it shouldn't impact what's happening in Texas.

It shouldn't impact what's happening over in New England.

It shouldn't impact what's happening in the Midwest.

But if that goes nuts and it fails, it needs to fail.

So the state senators, I'm sorry, the state legislatures would come together and they would vote for a senator.

They would elect a senator.

And that senator's job was to go to the federal government and protect the rights of the state, not to protect the rights of individuals per se, and certainly not to embolden the federal government.

But with the 17th Amendment, what happened was the House of Representatives function was to be the petulant children of government.

So their job was to come up with crazy ideas, crazy laws, all of those things.

The more liberal version of government.

Government jurisprudence would be the House of Representatives, your crazy ideas.

And then you had state senators who were supposed to be between the House and the president who would say, well, here's a good idea, but the rest of this is retarded, AOC.

Like, we're not doing all this.

That's crazy.

Or whoever else.

Name your Republican who's an asshat as well.