The 17th Amendment took the US Senator out from under the thumb of the State legislators and put them under the purview of the princes of industry and the barons of banking and business. It was an arrangement they liked.
States rights disappeared on April 8, 1913.
Lincoln’s war against States rights was a victory for federal supremacy. Which was the whole purpose of the Civil War.
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