[SunkenCiv]

All politics is local, as the Demwit Tip O’Neill used to say. Local reps don’t vote as a bloc, at least not on the Pubbie side of the aisle, in part because they think for themselves, and in part because they have to answer to their constituents. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[Kenny Bunk]

Senators, according to the original Constitution, are not there to directly represent the people of a state. That's what the House is for. Senators are supposed to safeguard the interests of their sovereign state ... AND its people. They are supposed to be subject to appointment by state legislatures. They are subject to recall by the states' legislatures if they fail in their duties.

States with Republican legislatures cannot be represented honestly
by Senators who are Democrats beholden to a national party.

There is a lot of interest on this site in the ways amd means by which the 17th Amendment can be repealed. How can this made to happen?