[AntiBurr]

"If you have a legislature vote for a Senator, the only difference between that and having everybody in the state vote for a Senator is the number of voters!"

The difference is that the state legislatures were more responsive to the voters of their respective states. If a U.S. Senator did not represent his state, the state legislature could and did remove him. An example: Jim Lane of Kansas was removed as Senator during the Cvil War and wound up committing suicide rather than face prosecution.

[muawiyah]

Wonder what they did with their Senators in Arkansas when they ran two completely separate State governments during the Civil War?