The 17th Amendment overnight rendered the Framers’ stable federal republic into an unstable democratic mess by making the Senate more congruent with the House.
Instead of standing athwart ill-considered and expected levelling bills from the people’s House, our post 17A Senate is as useful to the purposes of the Framers’ Constitution as an appendix is to the human body. It serves no positive function but can nonetheless kill.
True - but the problem was that the State’ politicians had entrenched their own power structures (still have in a way) so the only way to break through that logjam was to take the power of the senate election out of the state legislatures and to the people directly.
I still say it needs to be reverted but I understand what it was trying to “fix”.
Let’s get back to the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended by dismantling the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal government and reinstating state sovereignty (beginning with states REFUSING federal funding). Resorting our Free Constitutional Republic.
Then we can address if the 16th, 17th, and 19th Amendments can be overturned with other amendments.
A very serious question as to whether the 16th Amendment was ever ratified.