Amendment you wish was never passed

Hope so, GT23 makes a great argument about his least favorite Amendment.

17th and 19th.

17th made the senate redundant and is just another house of representatives representing entire states, is a smaller body and has 6 year terms.

19th made the government into big daddy provider of social benefits that is collectively fricking us up the arse. Women instinctively vote for security and benefits and that's too expensive now and made the government into a police state.

There's no question: the 17th amendment. It took representation of the states out of the federal government and replaced it with representation of population centers (e.g. big cities).

16th.

The amount of social engineering that goes on through the tax code is fricking insane...not to mention it's flat out theft.

17th

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Without Section 1, none of the Bill of Rights are applied to the states, or at least not clearly applied. The Due Process Clause of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment is the vehicle in which the Bill of Rights have been applied to the states.

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I was specifically referring to the jus soli provision of citizenship.

Man, that's a pretty sweeping amendment.

17

Who's list?

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I was specifically referring to the jus soli provision of citizenship.

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Technically this has never been settled by SCOTUS or congress. It has never been challenged in court (there have been similar cases and as I recall something about one of the justices footnotes). The executive branch of both parties for many decades have just assumed birthright citizenship.

I kind of remember this debate during the primaries. Ted Cruz was caught taking the side of birthright citizenship before the primaries and took the position against during the primaries.