The most hotly contested debate at the Constitutional Comvention was over how the people and the states would be represented. The Virginia Plan  proposed by James Madion provided that representation of the states would be based population, while the small states insisted on equal representation.

Rogger Sherman proposed a compromise that created a bicameral legislature with one chamber representing the pwople and a second chamber to represnt the legislatures of the states,

This compromise enabled the voice of the people in the large states to be heard in the House of Representatives and the voice if the people in the small states to be heard in the Senate.

Without the representation of the states in the senate,
the balance of power was lost and Congress became a unicameral legislature with two separate houses representing the interests the majority of people living in the largest states.

When the snall states lost their representation in the senate they lost their voice and their ability to prevent the tyranny of the large states.

In Article V Comgress is prohibited from denying any state of its equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent.

In Article IV the Constitution demands that we have a republican form of government and the direct election of senators violates that prohibition.

In Article V the Constitutions guarantees that no state shall be denied their equal suffrage in the senate without their consent.  

Today the following state's have never ratifed the 17th Amendment and forcing them to comply with the 17th Amendment clearly violates their Constitutional right to be represented in the senate.

• Florida,
• Georgia,
• Mississippi,
• Kentucky,
• South Carolina,
• Virginia,
• Utah

States that have previously ratified the 17th Amendment should consuder rescinding their vote in favor of ratification and join seven states that have refused to give their consent. 

Delaware voted against ratification in 1913, bur in 2010 Delaware state legislature decided to ratified the 17th Amendment. States have a right to give their consent, and they also have a right to withdraw their consent.

Senator Rick Scott of Florida spent over $80 million dollars to get elected in 2018 that was donated bt Wall Street bankers and corporations. By exercising their Constituional right to be represented in the senate the state could take the money out of politics.