Our Constitutional Republic ended with the 1871Act and turned us into a foreign owned Corporation anyways. The Republic Died snd replaced with Democracy. Democracy = Socialism. From 1871 to present look how big DC has stretched its control from that 10 mile square that was the UNITED STATES Corporation. The 17th Admendment took the voice from the States and gave it to the masses. DC is a cancer that is about to kill this land.,