Wow this blows my mind. There’s some heavy stuff being brought up here.On the one hand do we let government “State Legislatures” choose more government “US Senate” or do we decide for ourselves who represents us? It’s not an easy question to get a handle on !!!
As Jim says, we already have a representative in the House. The purpose of the legislative elected Senate was to make the senators beholden to the States and not special interests. As he said, can you call your senator and get him on the phone? The newspapers and television stations can and the lobbyists with big bucks can.
If the senators were not beholden to the public, they would not be swayed by public opinion. Hopefully, our state legislatures will be motivated by the shear gree of the federal goverment.
If the State legislature were to choose, then the folks from Carson, Powers Lake, Crosby, Velva, and Dodge would have an even chance of influencing the decision as to who would be Senator, and a better chance of being represented because the vote of their legislators would count for proportionally more than their individual vote in the current system.
This was a check against sliding into the morass of 'democracy' and mob rule, and a balance against the House which would be more representative along population lines.
“Its not an easy question to get a handle on !!!”
Look at it from a little different perspective. Right now we have virtually all power centered in DC. Repeal of the 17th would break it up into 50 power centers. And once you can break up the power, you end up with smaller govenment.
Wow this blows my mind. Theres some heavy stuff being brought up here.On the one hand do we let government State Legislatures choose more government US Senate or do we decide for ourselves who represents us? Its not an easy question to get a handle on !!!
I look at like this, would the legislature of New York have sent Hillary to DC ?