Old Curly from the movie City Slickers liked to talk about “the one thing”. Believe it or not there is. You hear people all the time saying Washington is broken. Well yes it is and we are the ones who broke it. By 1913, in the midst of the progressive movement, we were convinced that the founding fathers didn’t have it quite right. That because of corruption at the state level, we needed to tinker with the fundamental structure and balance of powers laid out in our constitution. Boy did we have it wrong. Our country had a cold, we prescribed the medicine, and now it has pneumonia and is in critical condition. So, what is the one thing?
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution!
Read more here: http://ralphperez.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/the-one-thing
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