The US Senate, which was originally selected by the legislatures of
the several states, was an ill conceived OLIGARCHY. Since there has
never been a parity of the population served by each senator, that
means the USA has two conflicting political systems, and the oligarchy
is the one which isn't FAIR. Giving undue power to smaller population
states slaps REPUBLIC ideas in the face. So, the US Senate is and
always has been, unconstitutional.
The Senate -- by definition -- cannot be unconstitutional.
What you (continue) fail to grasp is that the Constitution is/was an agreement between Sovereign States. The Senate is THEIR representative body. Amendment 17 curtailed yet another check on Federal power.
Regard$,
--MJ
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State. -- James Madison, Federalist Papers
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