Barnacles

The Founders system has collected many barnacles (distortions and lies).  Did they, or did they not create a tiered system of voting as they created two-year officials, four-year officials, and six-year officials, all according to the political sophistication of the voters involved?  They trusted the grassroots voter to choose a 2-year rep.  They trusted that rep to choose all the 4-year executives with whom he would be working.  They trusted only legislative bodies of reps to choose the 6-year Senators.  Or should that word “trust” be changed to “they constitutionally designated” that elections shall be done in this way?

What has happened to these concepts?  Amendment XVII, the direct election of Senators, comes to mind.  Partisans sneer at Electoral Colleges simply because the two are opposing systems.   States refuse to allow their counties and/or cities to have seats in their Senates. And the ultimate snub to the Founders is the garbage-laden five-representative system that States have imposed upon their citizens instead of the single districting system proposed by the Founders.