I ya gotta be a loon....

[pecunium]

I am glad I happen to be this one:


Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.


On the other hand... this loon Scalia on orgies and the 17th amendment (no, I'm not kidding)

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I think I can see it (and if I had more faith in the system, I'd agree with him).

The legislative was meant to have an internal set of checks. The House was meant to be responsive to the people, and that's part of why the two-year term. The immediate needs of the region the constituents will change that quickly.

The senators were to answer the larger needs of the states, and so they were appointed by an intermediate layer, the form of the State's legislature.

Now, if the legislature weren't beholden to special interests, if the party in power wouldn't make certain the Senators were of the "correct" stripe, if any number of things weren't going to cause this to make the senators, not the representatives of the state, but rather some private interest, then it would be better for them to not have to fight so much to keep their seats (because as much as 20 percent of the time they might be considering real matters of governance they are campainging) and not (though this might seem counter-intuitive) lose much of the advantage of incumbency.


TK