I would encourage all to study a little history. The reason the 17th amendment was passed was because of corruption on the state level. We never eliminate corruption, we just move it around.........................
“... The reason the 17th amendment was passed was because of corruption on the state level ...”
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That’s not entirely true.
Corruption was one of three rationales given,
the other two were chronic vacancies in the senate,
and the populist movement in general.
Corruption has been revealed to be just a lame excuse
and not really a nationwide problem.
Ultimately the 17th was pushed forward by the populist movement.
I recommend that anyone interested should read this:
“Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy, Federalism,
and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment”
by Jay S. Bybee of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Here is a link to the 74 page pdf file:
http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1365&context=facpub