Senate term lenght

[Free Palestine]

Fine, but there should be three members for each state, so that every state has a Senate election for every cycle.

[Free Palestine]

Oh, and it should be elected by the state legislatures again.

[Free Palestine]

If we're going to make the Senate proportional to population, we might as well just abolish it.

The Senate is supposed to be the body that represents the state governments, which are elected by the people.  It ensures that the governments that form the U.S. at a subnational level have some say in federal matters, as the United States is a federation, and not a unitary state.

Now, I'm not all that crazy about "state's rights" anymore.  The states are just arbitrary.  The upper house would, ideally, be drawn from more meaningful administrative units, like states redrawn to fit things like metropolitan areas and such.  But of course, that doesn't mean I support some quasi-oligarchal unitary state some people seem to envision -- power should still lie heavily in these redrawn states.