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Dear State Legislators,

We are committed to enacting the Arcadian College to right a grievous wrong committed by 20th-century Progressives — so-called — who were, in fact, hardcore authoritarians looking to subvert the system of proper republican attenuation of the senatorial popular vote in favor of majoritarian tyranny and rule by an elite.

The environment leading up to the addition of the 17th Amendment was perfunctory and duplicitous at best, with typical exaggeration as to the problem and proposed solution by the Progressives. If state legislatures were so corrupt, how could they be relied upon to properly ratify an Amendment that would take away their own power? And in the succeeding decades, has senatorial corruption ceased? Are they not captured by national special interests unconcerned about the needs of the various states?

And while repealing the 17th Amendment is the cleanest solution, it is by far the harder when compared to state legislatures simply exercising their constitutional power to modify the manner in which state elections are conducted, namely how the winner is to be determined. By moving from the popular vote — which manifests as the "puppet vote" due to the social dynamics of dense urban living — to majority districts, the absolute advantage of privileged cities is properly attenuated, ensuring that the otherwise colonized countryside minority has a proper say as to who represents the state in the Senate.

We encourage all fifty state legislatures to adopt the Arcadian College without hesitation, thereby returning America to the nation handed to us by our brilliant Founders, who, so close to tyranny, were far better at determining the proper form of republicanism than anyone since. Will you and your legislature be the historic first to restore balance?