Repealing the 17th Amendment would be no small task

Back on this day in 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect, ending indirect elections to the U.S. Senate.

What would the Senate look like today without the 17th Amendment?

Prior to 1913, when the 17th Amendment was ratified, state legislatures elected two U.S. senators to represent them in Congress. Members in each ...

Repealing the 17th Amendment would be no small task - Yahoo

Back on this day in 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect, ending indirect elections to the U.S. Senate.

Would Repealing the 17th Amendment Revive Federalism?

REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 23, 2018 The morning after the so-called “skinny repeal” of Obamacare failed in the United States Senate, ...

Would Repealing the 17th Amendment Fix the Senate?

advantage … of giving to the State governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government as must secure the authority of the former and may form ...

Should We Repeal the 17th Amendment? (HD) - YouTube

America's Town Hall: Panelists Charles C.W. Cooke, David Schleicher, and Ryan Lizza discuss the re-emergence of federalism and the 17th ...

CMV: The US should repeal the 17th Amendment - Reddit

The House of Representatives is elected on districts drawn by state legislatures. Do you know what legislative body is not elected by districts ...

Repeal the 17th Amendment? | Cato Institute

Good on you if you didn't need a lifeline: It's the one that mandated direct election of senators, instead of having them appointed by state ...

Why repealing the 17th Amendment wouldn't fix the Senate - Vox

A proposed reform that would get rid of direct election of senators and bring back the corruption and stagnation of the Gilded Age.

Repealing the 17th Amendment Won't Fix the Senate | Mises Institute

While the [original text of the] US Constitution says the state legislatures shall elect the US senators, it does not say how that should be ...

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment? - The Imaginative Conservative

We should scrap the 17th Amendment, which gave us the direct election of senators, and return this task to the state legislatures.

Is it time to repeal the 17th Amendment? - The Hill

As ratified in the original constitution, Senators were chosen by state legislatures to serve for a term of six years, while Representatives in ...

Should the 17th Amendment be repealed? If so, why? - Quora

If the 17th Amendment were to be repeated it would force voters to conflate federal and state issues and thus create significant problems in ...

Some Conservatives Want to Repeal the 17th Amendment. Here's ...

Repealing the 17th Amendment, which would end the direct election of US senators and return the power of appointing senators to state legislatures, is a ...

Conservatives' 17th Amendment repeal effort: Why their plan will ...

Over the past year, an increasingly central plank of conservative and Tea Party rhetoric is that constitutional change is needed and that ...

Would repealing the 17th amendment (Direct Election of Senators ...

Do you know why we have two Houses of Congress. The House of Representatives is elected by the People. People are the only ones who pay ...

Repeal The 17th Amendment And End Direct Election Of Senators

Out of manufactured hysteria over nonexistent corruption, the Seventeenth Amendment was born, robbing states of a major check on federal ...

The 17th Amendment under attack

The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to center stage in the new debate over ...

What's Wrong and How to Fix It, Part 8: Repeal the 17th Amendment

We must repeal the 17th amendment in order to rebalance American federalism. It once made some sense to centralize governance functions to ...

CMV: The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution should be repealed

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each ...