The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people .

Nov 15, 2010 . Before the Seventeenth Amendment was enacted, corporate interest groups were able to lean on state lawmakers and thus effectively buy U.S. .

Oct 14, 2010 . 1st District Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick and Republican Raul Labrador met in a radio debate on KBOI Wednesday, clashing over the 17th .

Oct 22, 2010 . John Yoo writes on NRO: One popular idea making the rounds among some conservatives and Tea Partiers is a call for the repeal of the 17th .

Jun 2, 2010 . There is a sizable bloc of Tea Party supporters calling for repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Nov 20, 2003 . 17. Articles 112, 113, 113A, 114, 115 and 117 of the Constitution are hereby repealed. Amendment of Article 153 of the Constitution. .

Seventeenth Amendment. Devvy Kidd March 2010. This work is dedicated to Bill Benson and his wife Lorraine. If Bill had not given up two years of his life to .

Jan 27, 2010 . The continued lack of enforcement of the 10th Amendment has been one of the failures of the conservative movement. The best way to revive .

Apr 2, 2010 . Repealing the 17th Amendment would not remove this pervasive influence of money in the process. Candidates would still spend a ton of it .

May 14, 2010 . There are signs that tea party calls to repeal the 17th Amendment -- taking the selection of U.S. Senators out of the hands of voters and .

Oct 24, 2008 . The 17th Amendment caused a failure in the federalist structure, federal deficit spending, inappropriate federal mandates, and federal .

ILLEGALS INVASION & THE 17th AMENDMENT. By: Devvy Kidd. June 5, 2006. NewsWithViews.com. "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, .

May 27, 2010 . One of the pleasures that comes from following the triumph of candidates who weren't selected by…

Jul 8, 2010 . Before ratification of the 17th Amendment it's unlikely that a Senate committee would have needed to raise the sort of question posed by .

US Constitution question: What is the 17th amendment? AnswerAmendment XVII (the Seventeenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution was passed by the .

Jun 25, 2010 . Debate centered around recent federal health care reforms, the 17th Amendment, and government transparency. One delegate even successfully .

51 posts - 34 authors - Last post: Nov 10, 2010Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment replaced the election of U.S. senators by state legislators with the current system of direct .

Prior to the enactment of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution the U.S. Senators discussed federal affairs with their state legislators on a regular .

Seventeenth Amendment--Popular Election of Senators . POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS The ratification of this Amendment was the outcome of increasing .

Nov 1, 2010 . One of the clearest measures of anti-Washington feeling this election year is the attack on a little-remembered, century-old amendment to .

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The Progressives that pushed for the 17th Amendment in the belief that the cure for . A repeal of the 17th Amendment and the resulting rise of strong, .

Oct 22, 2010 . The emergence of the so-called tea party as a political force in American politics has shed light on some of the paradigm-shifting ideas of .

May 6, 2010 . Two days ago, the Richmond Times-Dipatch printed a response to Jamie Radtke's April 25th article "Tea Party: Right Wing or Mainstream?".

The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. .

Jul 1, 2010 . It's doubtful the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which allows for such appointments, was meant to use such appointments as .

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Amendment 13 Abolition of slavery. Amendment 14 Civil rights. Amendment 15 Black suffrage. Amendment 16 Income taxes. Amendment 17 Senatorial elections .

This web-log calls for the repeal of the 17th Amendment and addresses the hegemony committed by the US Senate. The first significant step to remove the .

Apr 28, 2004 . 17th Amendment. Maverick Democrat wants to go back . believes rescinding the 17th Amendment would curb the power of special interests in .

Jun 9, 2010 . Tea Party supporters have been calling for repeal of the 17th Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Citation: Joint Resolution proposing 17th amendment, 1913. Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-. General Records of the U.S. Government, .

May 17, 2005 . A good overview of the history of the Seventeenth Amendment is Ralph A. Rossum's book, Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth .

Sep 17, 2002 . Federalism, the allocation and balancing of power between state and federal government, has emerged as a central concern of the Supreme .

Jul 26, 2010 . He has written extensively in the law literature on the 17th Amendment. See MacMullin J., "Amplifying the Tenth Amendment," 31 Ariz. .

Jun 1, 2010 . The New York Times' David Firestone takes a critical look at the efforts among some Tea Party activists to repeal the 17th Amendment, .

At the federal level, the Seventeenth Amendment is unique for having been the first and, to date, the only successful incursion of populist reformers .

Oct 11, 2010 . At a town hall meeting Monday night, Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller (R) became the latest candidate to suggest that he'd be in favor of .

Dec 3, 2010 . This week the Tea Party New Right topped themselves when their president suggested that the 17th Amendment should be repealed. .

The Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the .

(The preceding words in parentheses were superseded by the 17th Amendment, section 2.) No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age .

Nov 1, 2010 . TODAYS TAKE: Many Republican candidates are vowing to repeal the 17th Amendment, which gives voters the right to choose their U.S. senators .

Jan 12, 2010 . Whats the 17ths amendment? What does it make to a ''T'' google and . basically , it makes senators elected by popular vote instead of by the .

Mar 23, 2010 . The 17th amendment changed the election of senators from the responsibility of the state legislatures to a direct vote by the people of the .

Certainly the repeal of the 17th Amendment would not be a panacea. Rolling back the influence of the Federal Government and restoring the proper balance .

The Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 2003 was an amendment to the .

Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from .

Jan 27, 2010 . But in my defense, let me initially note that the 17th amendment has not . Moreover, it has been since 1913, when the 17th Amendment was .

Aug 31, 2010 . Consequently, in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was added to the Constitution, shifting the choice of senators from the state legislatures .

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. .

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