>The same would very likely happen if we federalized the Seante and
>elected them all nationwide.
Can't do it, though. According to the divinely inspired Constitution, the Senate can only be altered or abolished with the unanimous consent of the states. As Article V says, "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." Funny, I thought suffrage applied to people, not states.
Doug