I think that the constitutional republic needs to lose the idea of electing federal senators by either state lawmakers or general voters. State lawmakers need to take turns filling federal senate seats for their states.
While the states would have to keep their federal senate seats filled to comply with the Constitution’s Article V requirement of equal representation in the Senate, disgruntled voters would conceptually be able to use state recall laws to recall their federal senators, vacant federal senate seats filled simply by rotating in the next batch of state lawmakers.
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Run with that idea. Elaborate into a stand alone vanity. Be sure to ping me when you do.
That will almost certainly be on the Article V agenda if it ever gets off the ground.