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The 17th Amendment is like a Cancer on the life of this system of checks and balances. Now all power in governments in the USA rests with those powerful enough to buy Congress.

For example,
1. All laws have to be approved by both Houses of Congress.
2. The January 6th quadrennial process has Congress as the final referee.
3. All impeachments/removals happen through Congress.
4. All executive/judiciary appointments no longer have the State legislatures being able to apply strong indirect advice/consent.
5. All new amendments have to be approved by both Houses of Congress.
6. Any other Article V process has to be approved every step of the way by both Houses of Congress.

As a result of not having strong check/balance on federal power by the State Legislatures we have seen the slow growth of kleptocracy corruption in the USA. It’s like a cancer. I’m not sure if it can be easily fixed.

One good thing that came as a result of the 17th Amendment was the end of Jim Crow laws. No doubt about it that the racism of the Democrats in many States was intense and despicable where they ruled with one party control. However, in place of good fixes of corruptions like that at the State level we now have a much even larger infestation of corruption and incompetence at the federal level.

“Few voices advised caution, ....the senate still served its Constitutional and proper purpose, [1] to temper and cool wild proposals from the house, [2] protect the states from federal encroachment, and [3] provide wise counsel and circumspection of the president’s nominees and proposed treaties.”

All 3 things have come to pass. In terms of “1”, this seems to have accelerated with the ascendancy of Schumer to leadership. He was in the House before being elected to the Senate in 1998. He still speaks and acts more like a leftist, impulsive, overly emotional House member, and not what has now become the mythical, thoughtful, deliberating Senator.

But the quotation above begs the question why there were only a few voices back then? What were the political and cultural currents flowing through the country that made for such a weak resistance? Why did enough states ratify the 17A beyond giving a simple conclusion that states saw it as “beneficial”? Perhaps it will be explained in the other articles.

(BTW - Is there a recommended, classic, conservative political viewpoint on the history of the 17th Amendment?)

For all the charges of "smokey back room" shenanigans that may have existed when Senators were elected by the various state legislatures, at least there was a likelihood that the Senator would represent the interests of even the most podunk corners of his state.

Once it became a popular election, the only voters that mattered were the big cities. The state as a whole ceased to have representative in the upper house. And so it was that state's rights/powers were whittled away by the Beast of the Potomac.

TIMING IS NOW.

Following disclosures of large technology platforms, in collusion with treasonous rogue government groups, taking part in illegally removing a duly elected US President, President Trump had this to say on Truth Social:

in the Constitution

The MAGA Movement needs awareness of why the 17th Amendment needs repealing, as well as more changes needed to strengthen the Constitution. The timing of these discussions is now ripe.

Former US Sen. Rick Santorum Joins Convention of States Project as Senior Advisor:
https://conventionofstates.com/news/breaking-sen-rick-santorum-joins-convention-of-states-project-as-senior-advisor

Enormous changes in technology are allowing a Color Revolution (note the name Norm Eisen) to occur on American soil, putting the Nation in peril.

These changes in technology used by enemies of the United States to overthrow its government in a Coup d'Etat of its 45th President and to rig results of elected offices, are now discernable.

Criminal application of current everyday technologies; computers, scanners, printers, together with easy entry (amatuer level hacking) of electronic election databases, has allowed "One Person, One Vote" to become "One Cheater, Ten Thousand Votes."

Should the American Republic survive its technological war within, the aftermath calls for a multi-year commission to investigate causes and for needed changes to be identified. These changes must accommodate the People’s demands via Article V to repeal existing Amendments, and possibly propose new Amendments, all purposed to strengthen the Republic and guard against attacks on its institutions and elections.

More discussion of need for repealing the 17th here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4117108/posts?page=52#52

Eye-opening revelations of Stealth attacks using everyday technology and processes used in a takedown of the American Republic were brought to light by 1st Generation Polish-American Kristofer Jurski and are referenced here (study carefully):
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4106441/posts

https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/350/
Ulysses at the Mast:
Democracy, Federalism,
and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment
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(click the ‘download’ button if you want to read the entire 74 page pdf file)
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Excerpt:
Starting at page 40 of the pdf file, (marked as page 538)
III. B. Motivation for the Seventeenth Amendment
1. The Corruption of State Legislatures
2. Deadlock and Delay in the Election of Senators.
3. Populist Sentiment.
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Do you think 60 senators would ever propose to “undo” this?
The ONLY way to undo it is with an Article V Convention Of States.