Building that Bridge to the....19th Century
Our favorite non-Democrat Democrat Zell Miller has introduced legislation calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment.

"The Constitution called for voters to directly elect members to the U.S. House but empowered state legislatures to pick senators. The aim was to create a bicameral Congress that sought to balance not only the influence of small and large states but also the influence of state and federal governments.

Miller said that balance was destroyed in 1913 with the ratification of the 17th Amendment. He has introduced a resolution, which he acknowledges has no chance of passage, to repeal the 17th Amendment and again let state legislatures pick senators."

Great, so the morons nobody knows anything about in our state legislature are going to pick their favorite person to be our Senator. Sure, if that meant we would all pay more attention to state legislators, it could have an up-side, but if the responsibility of picking a US Senator would be so important to us that we would cast local elections based on it, then why not just let us vote on it directly? Oh wait, we do! Let's keep it that way.

Any historians out there care to educate me on the rationale/context for the 17th Amendment? I may have slept through that class, but just assumed it was a step forward for Democracy.