09-23-2020, 07:19 PM
(09-23-2020, 07:16 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: a direct election of the executive doesn't make it any less of a federal system.
No, but it does give the individual states no independent say.
Quote:You can call it parsing hairs, but you said "exact" and its a fundamental shift and one of only 27 formal changes we've made to our constitution in 230+ years.
What's more important, the basic reason for the existence of the Senate or how those Senators are elected/appointed? The latter is certainly an issue of importance but it doesn't change the basic intent of the upper chamber, which is that every single state will have an exactly equal say in the Senate.
