Anybody want to have a go at explaining how the state legislatures were convinced to pass the 17th amendment in the first place. What were the rationals given by the amendments supporters at the time? Just pointing to a URL would be sufficient of course.
It's one of those things I never have understood. Oh I could see the mob being convinced it was a great idea, but how to convince the state legislators, and for that matter the sitting Senators, who after all were beholding to those legislatures?
Here's a link that I found. It looks, by the name of it, to be a conspiracy theory site, but it makes interesting points.
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