As corrupt as the state legislatures may have been during Reconstruction, giving up the power to replace Senators is what led to the current state of the power of incumbency in Senatorial elections.
We can't get rid of them now. They have become disconnected from the states they supposedly "represent."
-PJ
The omnibus bill should renamed the OMNIBUST bill..
“I blame it on the 17th amendment.
As corrupt as the state legislatures may have been during Reconstruction, giving up the power to replace Senators is what led to the current state of the power of incumbency in Senatorial elections.
We can’t get rid of them now. They have become disconnected from the states they supposedly “represent.”
They way out is term limits. And the current crop, or any in the last 100 years, will never do it.
BUT, Convention Of States can do it. And we are pushing hard. We’re not far off.
Look up the COS movement. No “permission” from anyone fed needed, including Congress.
States can do it on their own. And we will.