[vmivol00]

Irrelevant. Senators reporting state Govt would be less likely to put their state in bad financial positions. If they did, they could be recalled at will by the legislature.

It also take a ton of the money and vote buying out of the process.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Vote buying was worse under the old system. Indeed vote buying was a major factor leading to the 17th amendment. Go back and study the corruption of legislatures in the late 19th and early 20th. People hear something that sounds good then incorporate it into their political statements superficial analysis if you please.

The real problem underlying Democracy is financial corruption. Corruption raised its ugly head even in the Revolutionary war. A General, whose name I can't recall was profiteering in supplies, in the Civil War Grant faced people profiteering in giving the South gold in return for cotton.

Don't be an idiot times have changed and one cannot go back. You would insure Democratic control of the Senate for all time.

Think it through.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Senators reporting state Govt would be less likely to put their state in bad financial positions. If they did, they could be recalled at will by the legislature.’

Yep. And states’ rights would be protected. In other words, the appointment of activist judges would END when it comes to widening of the commerce clause, treaty powers that compromise our bill of rights, etc.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Justices would need to be constitutionalists. Every time states’ rights get trampled, their sensitivity to constitutionalist interpretation would increase.

For exmaple, Obama v Arizona.