Repeal the 17th Amendment to Emphasize Local Political Decisions

Katherine Emily
7 min readJun 1, 2020

The 17th Amendment destroyed the link in America’s federalist system. As it stands, the states and the federal government operate in parallel. There’s no meaningful interaction between the two.

Public commenters frequently bemoan America’s chronic low voter participation rate. There are some valid points to their criticism: the average voter participates…

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Katherine Emily

Founder, The Subversive Scrivener. Writer. Thinker. Intransigent ideologue. Radical individualist. Talent fully developed is the highest moral good.