![]() ![]() What were you thinking? they would likely ask as they discovered our slowly deteriorating condition, We intended for you to have a republic, not the popular democratic spectacle of turbulence and contention demonstrated by the ancient record. They would no doubt be biased in this regard, but if the founders could be resurrected long enough to survey how we managed the well-considered legacy they gave us in 1787, and how Amendment Seventeen (A17) impacted that legacy, they would be horrified. So, they concluded, by a vote of 10 to 0, that such a Senate could best be achieved by assigning State legislatures the chore of selecting them not the public at large who were already given the House of Representatives. ![]() They wanted it to be populated with the highest and best humanity had to offer. Our thoroughly educated and distinguished founding fathers spent more time on the careful construction of our Senate than on any other topic. ![]()
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