Hmm, then. How about the 17th Amendment? Was it an improvement on the original Constitution?
As originally written, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures. But, with so few voters to bribe, bribery sure enough was a problem. Can you imagine such a thing, people buying off their state legislators to gain entrance to the highest governmental law-making body in all the land?
It happened.
So, for that and other reasons, the 17th Amendment was drafted, taking the election of the senators away from the legislators and giving it to the people.
We have only to look back about one year to see evidence of how having too few people to bribe can indeed win a person entry to the Senate. Wasn't there one Rob Blagojevich, governor of Illinois, who actually looked to be bribed -- sought after it -- in appointing a replacement senator when Sen. Barack Obama left for the White House?
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