[Repeal The 17th]

You and I have corresponded on this topic before.

You once sent me a link to an article that explained it all.
It was an article called:
“Ulysses at the Mast-Democracy Federalism and the Sirens Song”.
I don’t know if it is still available out there on the interwebs somewhere.

In a nutshell, there were a handful of reasons posited for the reform such as:
-acute corruption in the appointment of US senators.
-chronic vacant seats in the US senate.

The 17th was supposed to remedy those perceived problems.

Ultimately the idea went through just simply because “the people” wanted to “feel” like they had more of a choice in senatorial elections.

This is not unlike the push today to have the president chosen by popular vote.

All simply another move on the chessboard by the progressives towards their idea of pure utopian democracy.

[Repeal The 17th]

Here is a link to the pdf file.
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Ulysses at the Mast:
Democracy, Federalism, and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment

http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1365&context=facpub
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[Jacquerie]

This is not unlike the push today to have the president chosen by popular vote.

So true.

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten entirely Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy Federalism and the Sirens Song.