Edit: 17. Q. 17 No one noticed that on the conversation thus far below.
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Direct election of US Senators. This amendment, on its Fucking face most changed how our country was established. If this didn’t happen, Republicans would hold a MASSIVE majority in the US senate. MASSIVE. There is no local pressure on our county/district officials. None. Everyone looks to Washington. REPEAL THIS. NOW.
Yes and no. By 1900 very few states actually selected their senators. Most had already changed it the same way they did for presidential electors, to assign that task to the citizen vote.
It kinda makes you wonder why they needed to go through the trouble of amending the constitution.
To force the total removal of the states to have any power in the federal government to stop it.