“, let us say we repeal the 17th Amendment and return to a Senate with members appointed by their State Legislatures. Is it going to make a difference?”
Absolutely will make a difference, our founding fathers were not stupid, it will definitely put a completely different type of senator and it will restore a check and balance that’s currently removed on the federal government as well as the federal judiciary
The effects of the 17th were long to realize, but it changed the thinking of the nation. The State legislatures are corrupted by big government thinking. There will be no difference in the Senate.
As far at the V-Convention goes, changing something we don’t follow in the first place is useless.
You can’t rely on The Narrative of the media back then, it’s worse than CNN is today. And yes was there corruption of course there was, every government has corruption nothing was perfect back then. Having every state legislature in capital involved absolutely takes the power away from the current fedzilla and will eliminate the uni party that you see today. The 17th Amendment put the parties and large Financial donors in power.
The point of how senators were voted on was to spread out that power across every state capitol and yes some of those state capitals will be absolutely a mess, now we have it all with parties and large lobbyists in DC. Our founding fathers were not stupid
I suggest you read “Federalism, the Supreme Court and the 17th Amendment” by Ralph Rossum. It has an excellent history of the change.
I do not agree with you about the change that abrogation of the Amendment will bring, because you are changing the selection process, but not the philosophies of all the voters who put the legislatures in office. Consider California! QED.
The biggest problem our nation faces now is the marxist media. They control the narrative and all that follows, including education. That’s why I have written three books on the matter - - people just accept the course and never question how far out of line the narrative is with our constitutional form of govt. “The Real Constitution and its real enemies” is on amazon. You can see the details without buying it.