[OneWingedShark]

> “The seventeenth amendment is hereby repealed.”
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>> The boss constituents behind our state assemblies are more socialist and corrupt than the general population.

Is that relevant to the general underlying intention of the founders that the Senate be representative of the States themselves?
Just because “this hurts us [now]” or “this inconveniences us [now]” doesn’t mean that altering it is a good idea — a practical example is the separation of powers with am Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary — while it might be expedient if “our President” could enact laws in the short-term, it would also allow not-”our President” to wield those same powers to our detriment.

Indeed, if we are to be Constitutionalists we must respect the Constitution especially when it is an inconvenience to us. To do anything less is to release the government from the “chains of the Constitution” to wreak havoc against us.

“...in questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution...”
— Thomas Jefferson

[familyop]

Point taken. On something related that you brought up, separation of powers is already violated by having a horde of lawyers in our legislatures and executive offices. It will all come out in the default and collapse caused by them and other kinds of crooks, though.

[familyop]

"Is that relevant to the general underlying intention of the founders that the Senate be representative of the States themselves?"

I do have one more argument. Are the states represented by the small bands of crooks hoisted into offices by their government-connected kingpins, or by all of the people of each of the states?