[Jacquerie]

A government designed around separation of legitimate (legislative, executive, judicial) and enumerated powers, has degenerated into an inadequately mixed government of ill-defined limits. Where the long-lived, limited monarchies and republics of old featured elements of the democratic, aristocratic, and executive, America’s wretched excuse for government lacks the necessary aristocratic middle institution, a real senate. As our experience under Obama shows, a popularly elected congress cannot defend the people against unlimited executive abuse and judicial tyranny.

[Lowell1775]

Agreed.

Thanks for posting.

[Mad Dawg]

Excellent.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Repeal The Seventeenth Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment

“Prior to the Constitution, a federal body was one where states effectively formed nothing more than permanent treaties, with citizens retaining their loyalty to their original state. However, under the new Constitution, the federal government was granted substantially more power than before. Having the state legislatures elect the senators reassured anti-federalists that there would be some protection against the federal government’s swallowing up states and their powers, and providing a check on the power of the federal government.

Also...

Making the Senators elected by popular vote unified a national party.

It changed the dynamic of making Senators represent the State government.

[wildcard_redneck]

How about we retain the popular election of senators but give the legislatures of the States the right to impeach their two senators with a 2/3 majority?

[mo]

be happy to settle for a pre-1913 Senate

https://libertas.org/bill/sjr-2-supporting-the-repeal-of-the-17th-amendment/

prolly not much else happens in the USA until this is accomplished...seeing as the 17th amendment started the slippery slope toward totalitarianism

[Lurker]

The 17th Amendment was a horrible mistake.

L