Excerpt from "Federalist No. 9"

by Alexander Hamilton

"The definition of a CONFEDERATE REPUBLIC seems simply to be "an assemblage of societies,'' or an association of two or more states into one state. The extent, modifications, and objects of the federal authority are mere matters of discretion. So long as the separate organization of the members be not abolished; so long as it exists, by a constitutional necessity, for local purposes; though it should be in perfect subordination to the general authority of the union, it would still be, in fact and in theory, an association of states, or a confederacy. The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government."

Wow. How far we have come. The appointment of Senators to the Federal government by their respective state governments was essential to preserving the state's rights. It was not just an afterthought, it was an essential piece of the Constitution and one of the key arguments used by Alexander Hamilton and others to convince the states that they would still retain their sovereignty even with a federal government in place. Any rational person can read these arguments by Alexander Hamilton and others and see why the Senate was designed to be the way it was! If only it had not been for that megalomaniac Woodrow Wilson and those rotten Progressives who were obsessed with power and had no respect for anyone other than themselves, we would not be facing many of the problems in our country that we are facing today.