| Show Another view J is brought forward by Professor T W Burgess in the Political Science Quarterly In an article of great acumen and singular clearness of stale meat In this article he inclines to time popular eleclion of Senators declaring de-claring that the old idea of a confederacy confed-eracy of States died In the Civil war and a Federal system came into existence exist-ence wherein the component Stales of confcderatJon parted with their original sovereignty which passed over to the group of Stales as a whole Under this newborn Idea the people as a whole and not the States as entities are the final arbiters and authority It is lit ting then that they should directly choose the Senators Professor Burgess argues that this will be a slop in the reform of the worst rottenborough Institution in the civilized world meaning mean-ing tin United Stales Senate As the States arc no longer in his view to be considered the essential mlts that form the Federal system but the people asa as-a whole It would follow with irresistible irresist-ible logic that a great and radical change in the compo ltlon of the Senate would be demanded For It Is obvious popular election must be followed by a resistless demand for a distribution of Senatorial representatives with t some regard to population Undoubtedly that would be the demand de-mand as is clearly foreshadowed bj Professor Burgesss argument and also by 1 the walls of the heavily populated East at the intrusion of rotton boroughs bor-oughs into the Immaculate realm of AddickslBrn In Delaware and the self sacrificing upholders of the Fifteenth amendment in the South where the whites arc determined to do all the po Itical work |
