“But one hears so much breezy chit-chat in America about appealing this and appealing that.....”
Especially on Free Republic. Along with let the crooks appoint our senators.
There are more crooks under the direction of universal suffrage than in State legislatures. At least I can round up a posse and raise Cain at the private residence of my State Legislatures then vote them out or intimidate them to direct their vote based on why they were elected in the first place; can’t do that with drunks under the overpass that get paid to vote at homeless shelters, canvassers who fill in ballots at nursing homes of those who have Alzheimer’s, one issue voters who want to murder their unborn offspring at will, too many of them. 17th Amendment is the antithesis of an ingredient for a republican form of government (State representation).