DDH - The Progressive Era Amendments

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Jan 24, 2023 · 35m

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 Amendment was the really destructive…