Now that’s a moderate we can live with
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 By Mike Maurer“Grounding the Senate in state legislatures served the structure of federalism. Giving the states an important role in determining the composition of the federal government gave the states power to resist . . . the progressive reduction of the states to administrative extensions of the federal government. Severing senators from state legislatures, which could monitor and even instruct them, made them more susceptible to influence by nationally organized interest groups based in Washington”
Would you like your state government to matter? Give the legislators back their senators, and it Will (in two senses).
