The Senate is supposed to represent the states as a whole, not districts within those states. They were how the individual state legislatures were going to have a voice in the federal government.
The legislatures were going to be the ones who met the high standard to represent them in Washington.
Since the Seventeenth Amendment the election of senators has turned into a high-stakes high drama starring some of the worst actors in American political history.
Repealing the Seventeenth would go a LONG way toward restoring sanity to our government.
And of course, it will never come close to being repealed.
> One of the most absolutely worst things that ever happened to the Constitution of the United States was the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment. <
Totally agree. As I understand it, one reason the 17th Amendment was proposed was that sometimes a state legislature could not agree on a senator. So the state ended up being underrepresented in the Senate.
There was an easy fix. In those cases, have the governor appoint an interim senator until the state legislature could make up its mind. But, no. They decided to scrap the whole system instead.
BTTT!