Constitution you say...HA...I thought senators per the constitution we’re to be selected instead of elected? That’s obviously been amended a bit. If an elected senator is unfit to represent his/her state...shouldn’t the governor and legislators of that state have the ability to rectify the problem?
Senators, per the Constitution, were supposed to be elected by the state legislatures. They never had any more power to remove Senators then they do now (can only be done through expulsion from the body in which they’re serving). But usually honor-bound to follow the instructions of the legislature, if they wished to vote a different way, they would step down before their terms expired and allow them to vote for a Senator who would the way the legislature preferred.
Of course, sometimes they’d refuse to do so (a good example of what happened in the South during Reconstruction with Republicans elected by the briefly-controlled multiracial GOP bodies that still hung on after the extremely and violently hostile Democrats seized back control of those states one by one — one Senator that comes to mind is that of poor MS Black Republican Blanche Bruce. Before he was two years into his term, the Dems seized control of the state, and he couldn’t even return back to his state to visit with his constituents for fear of getting killed, but he stuck it out the 6 years until his term expired and he remained in DC until his death. It would be 108 years after he left office until another Republican took his seat — a fella named Trent Lott).
Well, yeah. By the 17th one.
If an elected senator is unfit to represent his/her state...shouldn’t the governor and legislators of that state have the ability to rectify the problem?
Perhaps. But they don't.