[samm1148]

“That was changed with the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, under the delusion that anything labeled “democratic ” was good.”

I thought that it had to do with scandals of that day but certainly the abuses of power that exists today are several times worse than a few minor scandals.

[Pontiac]

I thought that it had to do with scandals of that day but certainly the abuses of power that exists today are several times worse than a few minor scandals.

Part of the 17th Amendment rational was that several states in that period with closely divided legislatures had failed to select a senator. If I remember correctly one state failed to send any senator at all for a time.