Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

The Founding Fathers' original intent in providing for indirect election of senators was to place a
strong check on the power of the federal government.
At the federal table, the people were to be represented
by the House of Representatives, the nation as a nation
was to be represented by the president, and the states
as sovereign entities were to be represented by the
senators whom the states sent to Washington. The
beauty of this federal table concept was the veto the
states had on the encroachment of their sovereignty
by the feds. The 17th Amendment killed that veto, took
away the states' place àt the federal table, unleashed
the feds' appetite for power, and assaulted the delicate
constitutional framework the founders gave us.