I agree 100% but how would you ever get 2/3 of the senators to vote to eliminate their cushy position? especially those senators whose state legislatures are controlled by the opposition party. Well, anyway, we can dream...
I agree 100% but how would you ever get 2/3 of the senators to vote to eliminate their cushy position? especially those senators whose state legislatures are controlled by the opposition party. Well, anyway, we can dream... "
No need to dream the founders gave us the tool to make it happen.
Article V Convention Of States
That is the very reason we have a movement to call a Convention Of States. A COS can propose an amendment like repealing the 17th that will never get proposed by congress. It's the very reason the framers added the Article V provision in the Constitution.
Constitutional Convention ????
If the Senate were chosen by state legislatures, Republicans would have 65+ seats.