How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

Under the Constitution, the legislature was divided between a chamber represented by population (the House of Representatives) and a chamber represented by state (the Senate), creating an internal check on the most powerful branch of government. Because the Senate was originally designed so that state legislatures would appoint their senators, the Senate could represent state interests at odds with the deeper ambitions of the House. (The Seventeenth Amendment, which based election of senators on the popular vote, idiotically removed one state check on federal usurpation—now senators no longer had to fear the zealous guardians of state power in the state legislature, and could appeal directly to the population, mirroring the motives of House members, which tended toward expansion of federal power.)