[monocle]

Passage of the 17th Amendment underlies many of the current problems relating to states' rights and the interpretation of the Bill of Rights as a whole. Once the right of state legislatures to appoint senators was abolished the skids to greater central power were greased.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

You want to have 50 cronyish legislative party machines picking senators? Thats rich.

Go ahead and crusade for an amendment repealing the 17th, see how far you get - the rest of us will laugh at you from the sidelines.