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By Steven Maikoski, Author: “The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies”

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7-24-2026

Here is my latest piece on our Senate, written for a local restaurant paper.

What Every Voter Should Know

The United States Senate

The 55 delegates who created the Constitution of the United States were some of the best-educated people of their time. For years, they knew that our nation needed a new constitution, so they studied for that day.  History had taught these men how popular pressures, driven by greed and the desire for benefits from the treasury, could erode the prudent design of any government and drive it to ruin.  

Those popular pressures were, by design, installed in the House of Representatives. The founders’ tool to thwart those pressures was placed in the Senate, whose members were appointed by each state legislature.  Each state wanted its best people to represent it at the national level, because they would act as ambassadors for their state.

The Senate’s design gave each state powerful influence in the operations of our federal government. Senators confirmed many of the Executive’s appointments and treaties, and the Senate had the power to stop legislation that invited the federal government into areas that were not constitutionally justified.  The senators followed the Tenth Amendment, which made it clear that if a certain process was not in the Constitution, that power belonged to each state, or to its people. 

Instead of constantly engineering for reelection, as found in the short two-year terms in the House, the Senators’ six-year terms ensured their constitutional focus. But those long terms, along with the prestige of being a state’s ambassador, created an opportunity for party politics to change the nature of our federal government.  

Some politicians, helped endlessly by the newspapers, claimed that the Senate was an elitist chamber, controlled by the steel and railroad industries, with no concern for the common, working man. They claimed that the people voted for the representatives who selected the Senators; therefore, the people should be able to vote directly for their senators. That logic was the foundation for the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which, in 1913, changed the Senate to a body that was elected by popular vote.

The finest minds that went from each state to the Senate were replaced with the most popular, regardless of knowledge or principle. The Senate's prudent, constitutional focus shifted to allow programs that siphoned off funds from our nation’s treasury, which, after it realized its power, created one unnecessary federal bureau after another.  Popular pressure also gave seats to Senators who often challenged the president’s judicial nominees, replacing constitutionally competent officers with charismologists who disdained our constitutional design.

The original Senate, with its state-appointed senators, was a solid roadblock to our nation decaying into the mismanagement of popular pressures. It was an integral part of our republican form of government, which leaves the Electoral College and the separation of powers between the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches as the survivors.  All are now under political attack.

Our government has lasted for almost 250 years. It’s unreasonable to argue against that success.

A few days ago, President Trump addressed our nation concerning the files that have proven our election integrity has been compromised by factions within and outside of the United States. We have suspected this since the day that Joe Biden received millions more votes than Barack Obama.

With this event, and with the opposition in the Legislature to the SAVE America Act, we have confirmation that the group called the Democrat Party is opposed to our constitutional form of government.

They are playing word games as they push toward communism, claiming that it is actually a soft, democratic socialism section within our constitutional government. Don't believe them!

As I've written many times, I'm waiting for the arrests. These findings must have results!

Personal note: Early this week, I started typing like our old friend Burt Prelutsky, because I suffered a wrist injury that took me down to typing with two fingers. My wrist pain woke me up in the early morning; it was very painful. X-rays revealed there was no fracture, which stumped the doctors. It may have been my first experience with arthritis.

I am pushing to finish my book, hence the lack of recent newsletters. I'll make up for it in August.

Steve