Posted on 07/07/2013 5:42:17 PM PDT by neverdem
I don’t know. If you mean, the state house votes one guy, the state senate another, I think it was only up to the house. If you mean a divided house where no one got the vote, I think the seat stayed open until someone was appointed.
The US Senate explains its own history:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Direct_Election_Senators.htm
Just curious, how many states right now are conservative/R dominated in their State legislatures? I wonder what those numbers have looked like over the last 50 years? Do state legislatures normally lean more conservative than the US reps and Senators they elect? Just wondering if anyone knows what those trends are.
As a lady freeper, I'm ashamed to say that many women get their worldviews and political philosophy out of the pages of fashion magazines. I'm not kidding. And those magazines are absolute cesspools of liberal/feminist thinking.
Until we all get our thinking back on track with the Bible, it will be a tough go of it.
I would personally be fine with going back to one vote per household as it used to be before the 19th amendment. (The husband /father basically voted for the family). I think elections would represent the wishes of stable families much more than they do now.
Everything in our culture is so messed up now though, I don't think we'd ever convince the country to go back to that, outside of a major revival and reset of people's worldviews and assumptions about truth.
You have to get the elites on board. Things move fast when the political and economic elites see an opportunity. It will be hard to get repeal past the voters, though.
Thanks for the ping!
Gosh, how I despise democracy.
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