“Madison defended that by explaining that the Senate represented the State governments, something that the Seventeenth Amendment changed.” And so too, the 17th A indelicately and gradually and unfortunately has undermined the originalists brand of federalism. By-passing states’ interests and state compacts has lead us to a dangerous populism, ie a mob democracy, whereby both chambers are controlled by vox populi sentiments which historically leads to mob rule.
Forgive my posting such obvious items; you never know who else is reading this stuff, so I reduce the writing down the the LCD, like our schools do.
;^)