Repo of the Republic

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Our Original Republic
As we stand on the threshold of America’s 250th birthday, let's ask ourselves a question of introspection: Have we strayed from the bold, ingenious Republic our Founding Fathers built?
In the sweltering summer of 1787, a remarkable group of men gathered in Philadelphia. James Madison had spent months deeply studying the successes and failures of governments throughout world history. Armed with that knowledge and joined by other well-read delegates, they gave the world something extraordinary: the United States Constitution—a masterpiece of political architecture engineered to guard against the weaknesses of human nature while ensuring liberty.
They created not just a government, but a true Republic. The people elected their state legislatures. Those legislatures then chose America’s Senators — not through slick campaigns and soundbites, but by selecting the wisest, most trusted leaders among them. Presidential electors were chosen the same way: independent individuals expected to deliberate with cool heads, not ride waves of popular frenzy. This was genius at work. Smaller voting bodies. Layers of accountability. A vertical check-and-balance where the states kept Washington on a short leash. It was deliberately built to protect liberty from the very impulses that had doomed so many governments before it.
Then we began to tinker.
The Electoral College—meant to be a body of thoughtful, independent electors—was gradually reduced to a rubber stamp as political parties took hold. Abraham Lincoln saw the danger clearly and pleaded with his generation to “turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.”
Later, the 17th Amendment in 1913 took the election of Senators away from state legislatures and handed it to a raw popular vote. Almost overnight, the states lost their powerful voice in Washington. Senators stopped thinking like guardians of their sovereign states and started behaving like national politicians chasing the next election cycle. A vital firewall was gone.
House districts ballooned from tens of thousands of people to nearly 800,000 today. Special interests discovered they could buy influence at scale. And slowly, almost invisibly, our republic began sliding toward the kind of unchecked popular democracy that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton had warned against.
Today, we have the tools to answer Lincoln’s call. Imagine restoring the original vision: Repeal the 17th Amendment so state legislatures again choose Senators who put their states first.
Remove the arbitrary 1929 cap on the House and return to districts of roughly 40,000 people — small enough that your voice actually matters.
Let representatives serve from local offices in their districts, with all of Congress serving part-time, as they did for most of our nation’s history, with part-time pay that keeps them rooted in the real America they represent instead of becoming permanent Washington insiders.
Allow the Electoral College to do what the Constitution actually intended: deliberate with informed judgment.
With today’s technology — telecommuting and AI tools — none of this is unrealistic. It’s actually more practical than the bloated, constantly campaigning Congress we have now. The payoff would be breathtaking. Your vote in Washington would suddenly carry hundreds of percent more weight. Special-interest money would lose its stranglehold. Bills would face scrutiny from two perspectives: the people’s House and the states’ Senate. The federal government would once again feel the steadying hand of the sovereign states. We would stop being subjects of a distant, money-driven machine and become citizens of a government truly of the People, by the People, and for the People.
The Founders gave us a miracle. We let it drift. Now, as we celebrate 250 years of independence, we have the chance to reclaim it. Let’s make America’s next chapter worthy of its first.

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@PatriotXV11 @CAgovernor @CaliforniaDFPI @FTC There must be a way to take this to court to get it overturned. What they did is criminal! L A. needs Spencer Pratt!

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@pattistanger I think L.A. needs Spencer Pratt, and his ability to correctly diagnose what's wrong with L.A. That so-called election is a shame!

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@TomiLahren @spencerpratt It sure seems rigged to me!

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@MolecularLab_ @MetabolicFactor 12. The 1x0 comes first, which is 0. Then the other 12 1's are added.

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The Million-Dollar Question America needs to answer:
What would you rather have? A nation governed by common sense and basic ethics — where the House of Representatives is elected directly by the people, U.S. Senators are chosen by their state legislatures (exactly as the Founders intended, and which we've had for most of our history), and the President is selected by informed, knowledgeable voters constituting the Electoral College as the Constitution clearly demands…
OR... the upside-down circus we’re living through right now? Where senators — desperate for hundreds of millions in campaign cash just to win an entire state — end up owned by special interests, resulting, it seems, in the Senate refusing to pass obvious, common-sense reforms like the Save America Act… by continuing to vote for all three federal positions while watching the original design of our republic get trampled.

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@Nglmia_x Amen! That was very wise of you.

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@Patriot5715 The wonderful design of the human body...the intricacies of the eye, the ear, the immune system, and everything...could not happen by accident, but all point to a divine Creator.

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Scientists discovered "dark matter." It's called 'dark' because we can't see it, but the effects of its gravity we can observe. It accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe. Could this unseen matter be heaven?

A) Yes
B) No

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@Patriot5715 There's no invention, just observation...the way science is supposed to work.

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@realdefender45 But you need to vote intelligently. "For while the vote, and the whole vote, should be attracted to the polls, it must be remembered that an unintelligent vote safeguards nothing and is harmful in its effect." (Citizenship, US Government manual, TM 2000-25)