Senator Rand Paul, one of the few senators trusted and honored by the health freedom and liberty movement, recently controversially voted AGAINST the GMO Label amendment to S. 3240, the Senate Agriculture Bill. Rand not only voted against the GMO Labels amendment, 2310, but also voted “Nay” on S. 3240, Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012. This should be noted-that there was a nay vote on the overall bill by Rand-signaling discomfort with the presence of a Federal Farm Bill, one of the powers most definitely not granted to the Federal government by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. To speak on Rand’s principles, the critics of his actions in this case seem to ignore what I have seen NO other Senator do on the floor of the Senate, attempt to end the FDA police state powers. And just last week, he fought to STOP drones from spying and illegally collecting information on American Citizens and farmers. These are of course just two occurrences in which Rand acted in benefit of the rights of the individual and the rule of law, among many more. It does come as a surprise to me to see so many individuals attacking and criticizing Rand for his vote on the GMO Label [...]
states rights
17th Amendment Ratification & the Movement to Repeal It
One of the less known and more controversial moments in the history of the Constitution of the United States was the 17th amendment ratification. It birthed what some claimed was a more fair and accountable political system, and what others called Unconstitutional and tyrannical. The original words of the the Constitution that are affected by the Seventeenth Amendment are in Article 1 Section 3, and read: “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote” The Seventeenth Amendment ratification eliminated the Constitutional mandate for Senators to the Congress to be chosen by the State Legislatures, who are elected by vote by the people within the respective districts. In other words, Senators to the Congress are no longer chosen by State Legislatures and instead by popular vote of citizens directly. The problem with popular vote of course is that the process by which popular vote occurs creates little motivation to research those who are receiving the votes. The direct election of Senators, a powerful political seat in the United States, is carried out in only one step., whereas if State Legislatures chose Senators, the [...]
