Abolish the Senate???

"Whereas the Senate in particular has become an obstructive and useless body, a menace to the liberties of the people, and an obstacle to social growth; a body, many of the Members of which are representatives neither of a State nor of its people, but solely of certain predatory combinations, and a body which, by reason of the corruption often attending the election of its Members, has furnished the gravest public scandals in the history of the nation. . . ."

Preamble to a constitutional amendment introduced in the House of Representatives on April 27, 1911, by Victor Berger of Wisconsin

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helenS · 36-40, F

The American republic is structured very much with the Roman republic as a role model in mind; and the Romans had a senate too. People were not voted into the Roman senate though: the senate appointed new members.

MethDozer · M

@helenS The American Senate and Roman Senate have very little in common in reality beyond being a group of representatives. It's just what we decided to call it in respect to us being a republic loosely based on Roman governance. But it was never meant to be an exact copy or structured the same way.