This I do not understand as government grew plenty before the 17th Amendment was ratified. I'm interested in hearing your argument though. How does having state legislatures appoint U.S. Senators stop the growth of government?
i am going to try to keep this short, however if i an not clear please ask me and i will go into further detail.
then our government was created , it was be a true republic of "mixed government", not a democracy, however mixed government does have a "element" of democracy in it.
in a mixed government:
the house is the democracy element of government, because it is direct elected by the people, and presents their interest,
their rights
the senate is the aristocracy element of government, because the senators are appointed out of the state legislatures to be the senators who will represent the states legislatures interest,
their state powers
the president is the monarch element of government, because he elected by the electoral college, and he will represent the interest of our Union, which is the combination of the interest of the people and the states.
when legislation is created by our elected officials of the House, because the house is only empowered to spend the people's money, not the senate.
that legislation before it can ever be law, must pass the house [the people representatives ]and be in the interest of the people, then it moves over to the senate, where the legislation in order to pass senate [states representatives ] must be in the interest of the states.
and then on it the president, where he is to signed into law it has being in the interest of the people and the states.
BUT something happened, in the late 1800's a movement of democracy in America as a "form" of government came into our government, instead of it being only an "element" of government.
we have a violation of the constitution taking place, states begin direct electing the senators to the senate BEFORE THE 17TH AMENDMENT to the constitution, by the time the 17th is even passed 32 states are already direct electing senators by the people.
you may ask the question, how come the constitution is being violated and nothing done, the reason the USSC refused to hear the case of a republican form of government and considered the issue a political one and not a constitutional one, the the violation was allowed to continue until an amendment was passed.
the 17th amendment to the constitution change the aristocracy element of our government, now into a another democracy element of government, and by doing this REMOVED the states interest in our government, they can no longer protect their state powers from federal legislation which would usurp it.
when the people of the house have the power to create legislation, they will always work to create laws which better themselves, and they will not care about state powers in doing it, but while the states controlled the senate, the states were able to block such legislation which would interfere with their powers.
our constitution created a separation of powers, all powers which are delegated by the constitution are federal powers, all other powers which are not delegated and which concern the the lives liberty and property of the people, REMAINED state powers.
BUT because our congress now has two elements of democracy, legislation is created to grant people material goods and services and to spend money on creating things which are not constitutional powers of the federal government, because the 2 democracy elements of the congress [DO NOT CARE ABOUT STATE POWERS] by doing this the federal government has expanded outside its constitutional delegated powers.
the senate before the 17th is meant to CHECK the power of the federal government [a check and balance ], the senate was to be the GUARDIAN OF THE CONSTITUTION, because the states created the constitution, not the people.
