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100% agree.
I think that the 17th amendment is a significant factor in the corruption of the Senate.
Repeal of a few significant laws and amendments passed or ratified in 1913 would scale back considerably the corruption and expansion of statist federal government. Without those laws and constitutional amendments being passed America would be completely different and, imo, Americans would be much more free today.
From the lib perspective, just being a conservative is bad behavior.
Article III, Section I
Tenure:
The Constitution provides that judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." The term "good behavior" is interpreted to mean that judges may serve for the remainder of their lives, although they may resign or retire voluntarily. A judge may also be removed by impeachment and conviction by congressional vote (hence the term good behavior); this has occurred fourteen times. Three other judges, Mark W. Delahay,[5] George W. English,[6] and Samuel B. Kent,[7] chose to resign rather than go through the impeachment process.
Do you have the actual text that you are referring to?
I know, I know. I should go look it up myself.
So I would say the principles from which our various branches and functions of government proceed are what define good behavior, or rather the philosophers and legal scholars who preceeded the judges and politicians (along with any of the latter who qualify).
Without your mind, you are nothing. And without the minds to move us forward, we as a people are nothing.