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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - The Progressive Era Amendments
Description: Some months back a  caller asked me what I thought was the "worst" Constitutional Amendment. He postulated that it was the 17th, which moved the election of US Senators from the State Legislature to the popular vote of a given State.
Look, from a  purely strict constructionist viewpoint - which by the by - NOBODY  holds - every amendment from the progressive era has been "devastating." Some more than others, but all of them destructive to the original ideas of a  strictly separated Federal and State system.
That said, I have always believed that the 16th A...