Repeal 16th and 17th amendment. State Legislatures select the States US Senators. Voters in the State elect US House as it is now. State Legislatures change their process to select Presidential Electors so that they do that or perhaps the State governor gets a say as well (State Executives select National Executive). Most US revenue requirements apportioned to the States to raise as they see fit which is actually in the US Constitution.

So now voters can focus on State races and US House and their representatives in the State Legislature and maybe Governor select the US Senate and US President. US President and US Senate protect the States from unreasonable revenue requests from the US House.

The idea of state legislatures electing the Senators was that the states would watch and demand that the senators protected the rights of the state as opposed to promoting the centralization of the federal government. I don't know if this would have worked any better than what we have now as it turned out it was incredibly easy to control the congress by creating political parties and then controlling both parties. If you want to get elected you must conform to the socialist ideals demanded by the parties who are easily bought. The attempt of America to create a republic that respected the rights of individuals has failed, not because the idea or structure was necessarily bad but because it was easily changed from a republic to a democracy to a socialist democracy and the people accepted it. As long as the people accept the enforcement of socialism and demand more of it they will get their desires.

The Republicans need to get their act together and bring up some Obamacare legislation for a Senate vote that will split the Democrats' unified front. How about an up-and-down vote on simply repealing the individual mandate? I would love to see the Dems and RINOs try to explain a "no" vote to their angry constituents.

I agree with that too. The founders wanted it that way because the state legislators were selected by the people across the entire state not just the population centers.

Me dino can't see how Huckabee's idea--good ole boys elected by good ole boys?--will achieve anything.
A Convention of States appears to be the only viable solution for draining the swamp of professional politicians and returning government rule to, for and by We The People.
https://www.conventionofstates.com/
When in the Course of human Events it becomes necessary for one People to kick Looters in their $ka-ching$ tailored pretty pants and to send that Swamp Scum packing . . .

This would make senators responsible to their state governments. It might protect us from the arrogance of powerful national senators Who feel no responsibility to their voters. It would also make it harder for big party donors to take over Senate seats. The 17th amendment was, I believe, one of the foundations of turning the US toward a "progressive" direction and enacted during the Wilson administration. Yeah it's time for repeal of the 17th amendment.

Good luck with that! The race baiters will get out in force and tell everyone that we are sending the poor downtrodden minorities back to the plantation, the back of the bus, to separate water fountains and in front of the fire hoses.

Never mind it was all Democrats doing that.

He's right. The whole idea of legislators choosing Senators was to give the States a direct voice. With popular election of Senators, States have lost this.

"What we tried to accomplish for the American people was the right thing for the country," McConnell said early Friday.
What a traitorous,lying sack of 5#|t.

Repeal the 16th and don't replace it with anything. Kill all the meddling federal agencies, freebies, and cut military funding by 90% to balance the budget.
Anything short of that will be ineffective in restoring liberty and free markets.

Can you say "Venezuela?" This is the path we are on and will be there in five to seven generations. Given millennials are pretty passive about their fate I don't see much hope of them changing anything. As government creep continues and self reliance fades into the sunset government dependence will become the norm. And we all know how well that works.
The only hope as I see it is a Convention of States. I just don't see any will from the people to have this happen at this time.

Lets dream some more and go back to the original first amendment and ratify it. You know, the one that was to underpin the representative republic, fixing the number of citizens represented by a house member at 75,000 if I recall. Not the arbitrary number of 435 total representatives we use today. And while we're at it an amendment that eliminates congressional pensions and the ability to exempt themselves from the laws imposed on us peons. That should fix the career politician problem.

"it would make it harder to buy a party, when you have to go buy a bunch of legislatures."
It seems easier to buy off legislatures than the people. I don't see why different people doing the voting means less special interest influence.

I agree with Mike Huckabee. As originally conceived, the House represented the people by the popular vote. The Senate was to represent the interests of the 'various' states. There was a balance between the two; one was populist, the other insulated from popular influences. The rise of liberal-progressives started this movement and William Jennings Bryant was an advocate. By 1913 it became law. I don't think most states realized what they had given up, lost. I do seem to recall that there was some concern about the amendment being ratified within the timeframe allotted. We are slowly letting our 'more perfect government' slip away from us.

Well, I'm glad he finally listened to me - I've been saying that for years ;-)

Not gonna happen, but surely something to ponder.

I agree to repeal the 17th Amendment. Let's get rid of the 16th, too, while we are dreaming.