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I have long been an advocate of radically reforming the senate by making it a trans-state office. Every ten million people should elect a senator - which means that, starting from Maine, there would have to be districts drawn that would swallow some states. The House of Representatives, I think, is the proper place for state-based representation. However, the issue has been debated before. In the run-up to the 17th amendment, North American Review published an article surveying the many attempts to constitutionally reform the Senate that had been debated by states and Congress. The author of the survey, John William Perrin, was not an advocate, but a historian. This part of the article caught my eye: "Two others of still different type have been proposed. On  January 9th, 1882, Mr. Bayne, a member of the House from  Pennsylvania, introduced a resolution for an amendment  having the principle of representation found in the " plan  of government " offered by Governor