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April 18, 2005

Repeal the 17th?

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 8:53 am

Todd Zywicki asks if we should repeal the 17th Amendment. I say, why bother going through all the trouble of repealing an amendment, when it’s so much easier to have Cass Sunstein interpret it instead?

4 Responses to “Repeal the 17th?”

  1. Kevin Murphy Says:
    April 18th, 2005 at 2:28 pm

    Rather see them repeal the 16th.

  2. Phelps Says:
    April 18th, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    Hell, seventeen led to 18 and 19. I say repeal everything from 16 to 19.

  3. Xrlq Says:
    April 18th, 2005 at 5:49 pm

    Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla proposed that a few years back, when they conned women into signing a petition to “End Women’s Suffrage,” complete with oil paintings of women with looks of suffering on their faces.

    Course, if you pull 16-19, there’s not much point retaining #21, either. Might as well get rid of that one, too, then renumber Amendments 20 and 22-27 to fill in the gaps.

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    April 24th, 2005 at 8:14 am

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