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Should We Repeal the 17th Amendment?


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 ...

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 ...

Opinion | It's time to repeal the 17th Amendment - The Daily Illini

The Constitution of the United States provides the best system of government ever drafted by man. Despite this, the document is not ...

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.

Why do some American conservatives want to repeal the 17th ...

Conservatives (the thinking ones anyway) have wanted to repeal it since it was passed, even when Democrats controlled more state ...

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 ...

What are the pros and cons of repealing the 17th Amendment of the ...

We'd have less control over senators from our states, as the state legislature would choose them, making state races more significant ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

17th Amendment Weakened Balance of Power Between States ...

As we head toward the 2022 elections, it is a safe bet that few Americans can identify the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, ...

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 ...

Republicans can't let go of their interest in the 17th Amendment

Imagine looking at the landscape and concluding that one of the problems with our politics is that Americans are able to elect their own ...

GREAT DEBATE: REPEALING THE 17TH AMENDMENT

The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1912, gave American voters the power to directly elect the U.S senators for their ...

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.

Repeal of the 17th Amendment: A Step Toward Restoring Federalism

This article explores how the 17th Amendment has eroded federalism in America and why it needs to be repealed.

Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state.

Senators & the Seventeenth Amendment [POLICYbrief] - YouTube

Prior to the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. senators were appointed by their state legislators and not directly elected by the people.

Would Repealing the 17th Amendment Fix the Senate? - The Dispatch

However unlikely we are to amend the Constitution, it's worth considering how returning senatorial elections to statehouses would improve our politics.

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 ...