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Repeal the seventeenth amendment

Why Is This Idea Important?: Senators should be beholden to the states legislatures for their position. Should they not protect the interests of their state they would be more likely to be repremanded than now. Also the campaign money issue would be resolved since most of the stumping would be done in the legislative halls not on expensive TV ads favoring the best producer.

Senators should be elected by the states legislatures as originally ratified.

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Submitted by adirondack_1 2 years ago

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  1. hinesda said:

    The original arrangement was to give Congressmen and Senators different incentives. For a measure to pass both houses, it needed to be a patently good idea.

    The current system wrecks that balance. Now both houses are motivated by the same need to pander -- to the same people.

    This being the case, why have a bicameral legislature at all? It serves no useful purpose. It merely pays more politicians to perform redundant functions.

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  2. btcwiebe said:

    The 17th amendment was stupidity, decrying it's not democratic for states to elect senators. We werent designed as democracy, we're supposed to be a Republic.

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  3. thinktheword said:

    The seventeenth amendment has undone one of

    the key elements establishing this country as a "representative republic" and not at true "democracy". I believe repealing this amendment would effectively decentralize the massive quantity of campaign dollars now used to market a candidate for a popular vote. The mere fact Al Franken may possibly be elected to the US Senate should be all the evidence an intelligent person needs to support repealing the 17th amendment.

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