The article entitled “Will: The Continuing Fall of Federalism” was posted on www.thestate.com on 2009 February 28. In this article, Senator Russ Feingold and John McCain are in agreement to change the 17th amendment of our Constitution. They want to change our government to run similar to Washington’s by letting the people elect candidates for open spots in the senate of their state. They both agree that only the people of that state should be allowed to put them there. In our present day, executives elect these people for us. George F. Will of the Washington Post was the one who wrote this article and he opposes their ideas completely. He states that we are enabling the father’s of our Constitution the rights to keep the original document. This is all being done by the progressives that are pushing to have this passed.
In my opinion, I do not think that the Constitution should be touched. I think that if it is touch that it should take a while and that there should be a lengthy process to have it changed and ratified. I also do not support this idea. The executives of each state are voted by us to be our representatives and we should trust their judgments. Free and Fair elections are displayed because we vote in our executives and this should be enough to say that we support them.
