17th and suffrage

IMO, because of popular election, Senators no longer represent their state in the Senate. This point brings my next opinion, based on straight forward language in the Constitution, that the 17th amendment was not properly ratified. In Art 5 it is written " that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." This language makes the change to choosing Senators such that the Senators do not represent states but represent the people just as the Representatives represent the people. The State, a body-politic different than the People, loses its suffrage in the Senate. The 17th was not ratified by 100% of the states and each of those states lost their suffrage "without its consent". The 17th thus required 100% and not 3/4ths of the states for ratification.