Let the games begin

So according to the news, fourteen states have filed lawsuits against the new health care bill on Constitutional grounds. The fact that they had to resort to lawsuits just reiterates why the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution is such a bad idea. Under the original design, the House represented the interests of the people, and the Senate represented the interests of the States. States are sovereign entities and needed representation at the Federal level. Without a check from the States, the Federal Government could impose anything it wanted on the States, and the States would have little recourse. Unfortunately, the seventeenth amendment has made it possible for the Federal Government to do anything it wants, and the States are slowly becoming a little footnote in the history of this country.