Why don’t you try actually reading the Constitution sometime. The 17th is an abomination.
[ Why don’t you try actually reading the Constitution sometime. The 17th is an abomination. ]
The 17th effectively “Neutered” people’s involvement in State Level politics and removed a point of interest when it came to elect state reps and state senators.
People are supposed to pay attention when they fill their state’s chambers and if they send some moron to Washington it would become a mandate for the state citizens to throw out the current crop of state senators, the 17th effectively Isolated the citizens away from state level elections and effectively turned the federal senate into manipulated chamber that used the mob tendencies of the people to override the state as an entity.
Just think, how much federal land would there be out west had the 17th not passed?
The state legislature should not choose party candidates - that is an abomination - they should choose the Senators outright
You got that right. States lost all their power when they lost their representation in Congress.