I hear what people are saying, that the intention was that states are represented in the Senate. But I wonder if we would have different senators, or different types of people as senators, if they were still appointed by state legislatures.
For instance, every judge nominated by a rat since FDR has been hostile to the 10th amendment. There is no way a senate of the states would have consented to far left judges these past eighty years.
I submit that the state legislatures are just as establishment as Congress is, and that they would follow what the establishment party leadership wants them to do. Men like Cruz and Lee and McDaniels are so far out of the establishment that they could never be considered. It's only in the primaries where people from the Tea Party have a chance to make a change.
Oh we’d absolutely have different people. Remember part of that appointment was they served entirely at the sufferance of the state legislature, one vote they don’t agree with and you’re out, no terms. I’m in AZ where we fairly regularly get into arguments with the fed, if our two senators were actually voices of AZ’s government rather than the people we might actually win some of those arguments.