The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified to solve the problems of:
- State legislatures often failed to elect a senator in a timely fashion.
- Senators were being chosen by political machines rather than the people.
When the Constitution was first ratified, the power to appoint Senators was placed with the State legislatures of each state. As a result, several problems arose such as:
- state legislatures taking too long to elect a senator due to partisan differences causing a deadlock in those legislatures.
- senators being chosen to serve the party by the majority party in the state legislature instead of serving the people
- senators trying to please the politicians in state legislature instead of their electorate
To solve all these problems, the Seventeenth Amendment gave Americans the power to vote directly for Senators as opposed to state legislatures doing so.
In conclusion, giving people the power to vote for their senators meant that the senators were chosen on time and served the people.
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