"17th Amendment Doesn’t Need To Be Repealed".

17th Amendment doesn’t need to be repealed

Friday, November 19, 2010 11:19 AM CST

I am writing to commend the editorial writer for authoring the piece which appeared in the Daily News, Wednesday, titled: “Repealing the 17th Amendment simply a bad idea.”

With all respect due those who have advocated such a course of action, it sounds to me like a few politicians are jumping on the “repeal” bandwagon for what I suspect is born of mere political expediency, rather than abiding principles.

The principles which should instead abide these folks, as well as us, are those principles embodied in our sacred Constitution, including the attacked Bill of Rights’ 17th Amendment.

Repealing the 17th Amendment does nothing but deprive “We, the people” our God given right to be masters (and mistresses) of our own destiny, and to have the power to select those who we will permit to serve us.

And most important, such a repeal will give the power to the people who least deserve to wield it for us - our legislators, who constantly fail us by their self-serving schemes, and display for the world to see, how incompetent many of them truly are.

And add to that scenario their penchant for corrupt backroom dealing, and we have a recipe for disaster in the making.

Thus, the choice of senator, without the 17th Amendment, will most likely be made when favors have been traded, without due regard being given to the public welfare.

So count me as one who opposes repealing the 17th Amendment.

I say: Let “We, the people” decide our own fates.

Osi Onyekwuluje

Bowling Green