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Question: How should senators be chosen?
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By popular vote		  
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Unicameral appointment in state legislatures		  
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The lower and upper house in state legislatures should each appoint one		  
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Governors should appoint them		  
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State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment		  
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The U.S. representatives from each state should appoint them		  
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Author Topic: Which one of these Senate ideas do you like best?  (Read 2012 times)
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« on: December 04, 2004, 11:04:09 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2004, 11:05:19 PM »
Popular vote.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2004, 11:18:01 PM »
Why popular vote?
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2004, 11:23:19 PM »
Because I believe that we have the right to elect who represents us in Washington.
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« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2004, 11:51:14 PM »
Popular vote.
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2004, 12:09:58 AM »
Popular vote...

Second choice being chosen by each house of the state legislature, but confirmed by the other.
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2004, 12:18:15 AM »
Heh, maybe I should have left the popular vote option off. If you like the popular vote, please state your second favorite as well. Smiley

My first choice was each house of the state legislature appointing one Senator.
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2004, 12:27:53 AM »
State legislatures, with each houe concurring on each appointment.

The states have no reperesentative to Washington, and the rights of states have not been respected as a result.  A lot of unfunded mandates have come down from Washington, and the states can't push back.
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2004, 04:43:59 AM »
State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment.

That's the way it was intended, with the states having a say in the federal government.
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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2004, 09:22:10 AM »
Popular vote

but if that's not an option state legislatures I suppose
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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2004, 10:48:09 AM »
This poll was created just so the word "unicameral" could be used in proper context.
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« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2004, 12:33:32 PM »
State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment

Electing senators by popular vote is what destroyed federalism and state's rights.
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« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2004, 04:51:17 PM »
Quote from: Lunar on December 05, 2004, 12:33:32 PM
State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment

Electing senators by popular vote is what destroyed federalism and state's rights.

Agreed. The people have the House of Representatives, the Senate was supposed to represent state governments. The founders rightly understood that the masses should have a say in their governance, but that the masses were capable of making tyrannous and uneducated decisions, so they made one house elected by government and one elected by the masses - one to counter the other, and maintain a balance of power. No one group, whether it be government or the people, should ever gain too much power. By popular election of Senators, the balance of power was ruined.
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2004, 04:58:55 PM »

Quote from: Philip on December 05, 2004, 12:18:15 AM
Heh, maybe I should have left the popular vote option off. If you like the popular vote, please state your second favorite as well. Smiley

I guess my 2nd favorite choice would be:

State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment
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« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2004, 04:59:36 PM »
Popular vote!
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« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2004, 05:33:12 PM »
Quote from: Senator Bono on December 05, 2004, 04:43:59 AM
State legislatures, but both houses should have to agree on each appointment.

That's the way it was intended, with the states having a say in the federal government.

Exactly.  This is exactly the way I feel on this.
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