The Founders’ experiment with representative government
was supposed to keep partisan ideologues from gaining control of the
system. Their first districting system
placed 40,000 persons in each district. Today, 700,000 people live in each
district, and the U.S. Congress is in political deadlock State Governments, as usual, shrug
powerlessly over any prospect of doing anything about the situation.
In fact, State Governments are the only entities with the
sovereign power to completely empty out Washington, D.C. and replace the
personnel with their own. Their problem
is that they must agree among themselves on whatever plans they want to pursue.
The two-year representative system still has partisan
flexibility. But, since the six-year
senatorial system was sidetracked into an election vacuum in 1913, the
Founders’ purpose for the U.S. Senate has been absolutely negated. Its members have become loose cannons who
follow only their own personal whims. There is no Constitutional process to
effectively control their tenure once they achieve name recognition on their
state-wide ballots. State officials must
govern in the shadows of these whimsical beings. When Amendment XVII is cancelled, they will
go away and State Legislatures will again be able to send their reps to the
U.S; Senate. And the people and their
State Governments can prepare their districting for a different set of reps who
should be sitting in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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