By the time the 61st and 62nd Congresses took up debate on ratification of the 17th Amendment, the notion of states’ rights had been revivified by the Civil War and the Reconstruction-era ...

April 8 marks the 110th anniversary of the ratification of the 17th Amendment, a change to the U.S. Constitution that replaced the election of U.S. senators by state legislatures with direct ...

As we head toward the 2022 elections, it is a safe bet that few Americans can identify the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, even though it’s one of the most significant amendments.

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment ...

Think first of the 16th and 17th Amendments (both ratified in 1913), which gave us the federal income tax and the direct popular election of senators. These were followed by the 18th Amendment ...

Not enough states ratified before the seven years elapsed ... but also in proposing the Twelfth and the Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included in the amending resolutions crucial terms ...

How did the federal government ever become so dysfunctional? Congress ratified the 17th Amendment to the Constitution on April 8, 1913, requiring candidates for the U.S. Senate to run a public ...