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Wow this blows my mind. There’s some heavy stuff being brought up here.On the one hand do we let government “State Legislatures” choose more government “US Senate” or do we decide for ourselves who represents us? It’s not an easy question to get a handle on !!!

As Jim says, we already have a representative in the House. The purpose of the legislative elected Senate was to make the senators beholden to the States and not special interests. As he said, can you call your senator and get him on the phone? The newspapers and television stations can and the lobbyists with big bucks can.

If the senators were not beholden to the public, they would not be swayed by public opinion. Hopefully, our state legislatures will be motivated by the shear gree of the federal goverment.

In many states, there are just a few cities who outnumber the population of the more rural areas, but which comprise a small fraction of the area of the state. In North Dakota, Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bismarck can outvote just about everyone else. We, who live in other areas of the state which produce oil, coal, and have vast ranching and farming interests find ourselves in the unenviable position of only being represented when our interests coincide with those of the residents of those three cities.

If the State legislature were to choose, then the folks from Carson, Powers Lake, Crosby, Velva, and Dodge would have an even chance of influencing the decision as to who would be Senator, and a better chance of being represented because the vote of their legislators would count for proportionally more than their individual vote in the current system.

This was a check against sliding into the morass of 'democracy' and mob rule, and a balance against the House which would be more representative along population lines.

“It’s not an easy question to get a handle on !!!”

Look at it from a little different perspective. Right now we have virtually all power centered in DC. Repeal of the 17th would break it up into 50 power centers. And once you can break up the power, you end up with smaller govenment.

Wow this blows my mind. There’s some heavy stuff being brought up here.On the one hand do we let government “State Legislatures” choose more government “US Senate” or do we decide for ourselves who represents us? It’s not an easy question to get a handle on !!!

I look at like this, would the legislature of New York have sent Hillary to DC ?