Analyze why the U.S. Constitution didn’t include direct election of senators.(1 point)
A. It was done so that states could allow the people to tell them what to do.
B. It was a compromise made to get the Constitution ratified.
C. It was done in an effort to elect senators who were more knowledgeable about the political decisions they were going to make.
D. It was a compromise to give the people control over the composition of the Senate.
B. It was a compromise made to get the Constitution ratified.
The decision to have senators elected by state legislatures instead of through direct popular vote was a compromise between the larger states, which wanted population-based representation, and the smaller states, which wanted equal representation regardless of population. This compromise was necessary in order to garner enough support for the Constitution to be ratified.