Commentary On Elections-Part Thirty-Four & Part Thirty-Five

Commentary On Elections-Part Thirty-Four

There needs to be three senators from each state to dilute the excessive authority or imperial democratic traits in each U.S. Senator and in the U.S. Senate body. The expansion of three U.S. Senators per state is also necessary due to the population explosion. In 1913, there were less than 100 million people in USA. Now the U.S. population is over 330 million.

Each U.S Senator must be each selected by the state legislature. The members of the state legislature who exclusively belong to each of the three different regions in every state must choose their own member of the U.S. Senate who hails from their own specific region of their state.

Commentary On Elections-Part Thirty-Five

The American Constitution stated in Article One, Section Three, Clause One "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote".

This was changed by the 17th Amendment. That amendment called for the electorate to choose these officeholders rather than the state legislatures. However the purpose of this is to explain the intent of the Framers Of The U.S. Constitution when they decided that multiple, as opposed to one, members of the U.S. Senate should come from each state.

Obviously if the state legislatures were totally allowed to choose one senator, its members would choose the other senator to be similar to that one senator. There would be no counterbalance. Since the Founding Fathers wanted Checks & Balances, they did not want the state legislature to have unbridled authority to choose these two members of the U.S. Senate.

While they did not specify this, it is easy to surmise that in accordance to the ideals of Representative Democracy, each U.S. Senator must belong to a different region of that specific state. Technically speaking it would be very easy for the state legislatures to choose both these officeholders from the same region if not same city.

The only Representative Democratic ideal for the choosing of U.S. Senators is not for the entire state electorate to vote for candidate(s) for U.S. Senate who are from a different region of that specific state. That would make little sense as one region would not have any familiarity with candidate(s) from another region. Since the members of the U.S. Senate should respect the views and needs of his/her constituency, a candidate who belongs to a specific region will not be able to provide such respect to the constituency who belong to a different region. Therefore state legislative members who belong to a specific region must exclusively and solely vote for candidates in their specific region only. State legislative members from one of the three regions should not be allowed to choose a candidate who hails from a different region.