[WhiskeyX]

The worst effect of the 17th Amendment was removing the ability of the State legislature and/or the constituent Citizens, the People, to remove a Senator from office before the end of the six year term of office. This change and the virtual impossibiity for impeachment or censure of a Senator belonging to the majority party ahs made the senators virtually immune from accountability, especially if and when vote fraud rigs the elections.

[cripplecreek]

Here in Michigan it means that Detroit and Flint elect Levincow for the rest of us.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The worst effect of the 17th Amendment was removing the ability of the State legislature and/or the constituent Citizens, the People, to remove a Senator from office before the end of the six year term of office.

Senators had 6-year terms even before the 17th Amendment. Once the state legislature elected a Senator, they had no power to remove him before his 6-year term was up.