“It demonstrates what the critics knew about this amendment all along: It was nothing more than a charade to keep legislators and people with influence in control of the process so that politicians can continue to pick their voters. How many voters understood they were voting for a “bipartisan” system that writes into the constitution one bipartisan act per decade: the process of legislators, working with lobbyists, trading voters across party lines and then shaking hands to congratulate each other on another decade in office?”
