Now there's a whole discussion. We can peel the onion on this. You know, the 17th Amendment, which most people don't know what that is, changed the direct election of senators. Senators were not elected for the first hundred and fifty years of our country. They were appointed by governors and the state legislatures. And the point of that was exactly the question you asked. (26:20–26:24)
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Asserts that U.S. senators were appointed, not elected, for the first 150 years.
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