Fun Fact: Who Would Control the Senate If There Were No 17th Amendment?

by Rod D. Martin
October 12, 2018

Fun fact: if the 17th Amendment were repealed, it would radically change the composition of the Senate. Here's why, and how.

The 17th gave us direct election of Senators. Previously (as in, from 1788 to 1912, which is to say, the way the Founding Fathers designed it), the state legislatures picked Senators. The idea was that the House of Representatives would directly represent the interests of the people, while the Senate would represent the interests of the sovereign states (and thus federalism, and thus block unconstitutional centralization and taxes). If the two could agree, than something should happen; if they couldn't, it probably shouldn't.

Just as so-called "progressives" pushed for the abolition of this system, they are now calling for the abolition of the Electoral College (which would result in a handful of coastal cities -- and all their illegal aliens and big-city machines --determining the outcome of every Presidential election, of course).…