A measure introduced by a Republican state lawmaker would urge Congress to abolish the 17th Amendment and allow legislatures, ...

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 ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

Back in August 2023, I wrote about a potential Seventeenth Amendment conflict in Kentucky. Under Kentucky law, in the event of a Senate vacancy, the Governor could only appoint a temporary Senator of ...

MAGA-aligned Arizona State Representative Khyl Powell (R), a member of its House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections ...

Indiana State Sen. Jim Smith (R-Charleston) is calling on his state to rescind its ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States ...

In an "As I See It" published on Nov. 15, Paul F. deLespinasse proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to help "rebalance the power of the states and the federal government" by taking out of ...

I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal regarding the 17th Amendment, and then began reading "Lies the Government Told You" by Andrew Napolitano. Napolitano writes: "The 17th Amendment ...

5/13/1912: Seventeenth Amendment is approved by the House of Representatives. The Senate approved it the prior month. The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913.