Quote:Yeah, you're right.   I was talking about the Connecticut Compromise but you are right, that came after the original design, which was to have Senators elected by state legislatures.  

 

That said, don't you think having Senators elected by the politicians in the legislature would lead to a corrupt process?   That's one of the reasons they passed the 17th Amendment in the first place: allegations that Senate seats were being bought and sold in the state legislatures. 

 

When you consider that the intention was to prevent an all-powerful federal government then having a specific portion of that government responsible only to the member states made perfect sense. The 17th contributed more to the demise of Federalism and State's rights than anything outside the Civil War itself. Now we have a federal government who takes from the states as it sees fit and then turns around and bullies them to enact legislation using the very funds they've taken from those states. As for corruption, it's not like it got better, D.C is still the hive of scum and villany its always been.

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