We have a Marxist Occupation Government now in the first, only, and probably the last nation of liberty under the rule of law because a communist U.S President in 1913 and a communist Secretary of State rammed through a Constitutional Amendment that deprived the States of the United States of their ability to constrain the federal government to the terms of the Constitution that created it. But any State, today, has the power to abolish that Amendment and stop the Marxist Occupation Government cold, and without bloodshed — if they will do it.
The 17th along with the 16th amendment were not approved by a 2/3 of the states. That is why Teddy run as third party to split the republicans to make sure Wilson got in.