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 constitutional first principles fostered by the Tea ...

Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called to repeal the 17th Amendment on Tuesday, which would eliminate the requirement that U.S. senators be elected by popular votes. He also recommended abolishing ...

SENATOR Raza Rabbani`s statement assuring the opposition that there was no “wavering” on the part of the government on repealing the 17th Amendment to the constitution is welcome. The PPP and its ...

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For more than 100 years, voters have been able to pick U.S. senators themselves. Some conservatives think the country would be better off if state... It may be an idea whose time came and went 100 ...

You've already heard about most of the important issues in Missouri's U.S. Senate race, from taxes and budgets to Social Security and Medicare. Now comes the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. U ...

Utah lawmakers recently approved a resolution calling on Congress to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to ...

: As summer kicks campaign season into high gear, tea party victories in key Republican primaries are bringing new focus on the candidates' shared fury at the federal government and outlandish stances ...

Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America. As we head toward the 2022 elections, it is a safe bet that few Americans can identify the ...

For a couple of years, specifically 2010 and 2011, far-right activists pushed a muddled constitutional message. On the one hand, conservatives claimed to be the true, unyielding champions of the ...

Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) procedural maneuver challenging the jurisdiction of the Senate over a former president pretty much squelched any chance of convicting Donald Trump at his upcoming impeachment ...

It was just over a century ago when the nation changed the process for selecting U.S. senators. The 17th Amendment gave voters the power to elect senators, who had previously been elected by their ...