Quote:The purpose of the Senate was not to represent the People, the People's House is the House of Representatives. The Senate was supposed to represent the sovereign states, not the population at large. There is no real point to a bicameral legislative body if there's no difference in the groups being represented.

 

I disagree.  I think the main reason we have a separate Senate and House of Representatives was because when they wrote the Constitution, the smaller states wanted equal representation and the larger states wanted proportional representation.  So they compromised by having a Senate with equal representation, 2 Senators for each state, and a House of Representatives with representatives apportioned by population. 

 

I know that before the 17th Amendment, there was no direct election of Senators; the legislatures did the electing, but from what I have read, there were a lot of problems with that process and a movement to reform and clean up the process by passing the 17th Amendment and getting the state-level politicians out of it. 

 

I really don't know how anyone could favor putting the Florida legislature in charge of selecting our Senators for us.  That seems like such an invitation to corruption, and history shows that when it was done that way, there were many instances of corruption that were investigated.   That's what led to the 17th Amendment.  

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