Senators could not be recalled before the 17th Amendment either.
At some state ratification conventions antifederalists argued that the Constitution should be amended to allow recall of Senators but it wasn't.
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But their reappointment was not the shoo-in that it is today. And if it was, then it was an incentive to pay more attention to who got votes in the state legislature.
-PJ