Dems ready to submit a bill giving term limits to SCOTUS. How about you give yourselves term limits, assholes?
(www.reuters.com)
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Wait what? They didn't include the House in the Constitution? When did it get added? How was the Senate to be elected?
The 17th Amendment is when we really took a knife to the gut. Prior, state legislatures voted for Senators.
MuadDon knows whats up.
People don't understand that the reason for dividing congress into separate houses was so there would be popular representation (house of representatives) and state representation (senate).
Making them both popular elections kind of defeated the purpose of having two houses to begin with.
There's still the fact that the Senate represents states equally, while the House represents the population, but that switch really fucked things worse than they were with the cronyism
It netfs the power of the individual states and centralizes power around money and entrenchment.
Pretty damaging to a republic
What were the people who advocated this trying to do?
What was the public sentiment?
Article 1 established the lower house of congress.
Right. I just never looked at functionality without the House
Ben Franklin said should be like jury duty. And only a daily per diem for days they worked not salaries. No source just remember reading that somewhere a couple years ago.
I think that's in his autobiography, which is a great read. You might have encountered it somewhere else
Thank you! I thought both Houses were included. It does make sense to let our representatives elect Senators. Then again my State legislature is heavily R, so I would say that.
There was to be no house of reps and senators were to be (and were, for a time) appointed, not elected.
Democracy is evil, as the will of the scum-sucking masses tends to be evil.