They should have allowed for the states to recall when they popularized the election of us senators removing it from the state legislatures. The states now effectively have no representatives in the swamp.
Actually, the 17th Amendment removed a foundational support for the Republic in much the same way the Electoral College is another foundational support.
The 17th Amendment effectively severed the relationship of Congress to the People and allowed its 535 members to be bought and paid for. 535 is a small number to target when it comes to taking over a country’s political body.
The popular vote should never have been amended into the Constitution. A recall amendment would have been more appropriate.
Popular Vote = HIRE
Recall = FIRE
People will never know who they ‘HIRED’, never know the true nature of their US Senators until they see the ‘fruit’ of their US Senator’s work but even then the fruit can be obscured by campaign commercials and parliamentary tricks inside Congress.
But Recall at least allows for buyer’s remorse, allowing the People of a state to ‘FIRE’ their elected officials, their US Senators in this case.