On April 8, 1913, Connecticut became the 36th state to ratify the Constitution’s 17th Amendment. Learn about the only amendment to change the structure of Congress from National Constitution ...

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 ...

Yesterday, on the heels of Obamacare being cemented for what seems like the hundredth time, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee tweeted his support for repealing the 17th amendment.. The 17th ...

The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment, Article I, ...

It also mentioned that the 17th Amendment’s ratification “changed the selection of the United States Senators from that of being ‘chosen’ by the state legislatures to that of being ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, House Joint Resolution was introduced into the Virginia House of Delegates, asking in order to halt federal encroachment and restore a proper balance between the ...

The "Seventeenth Amendment" isn't just the 134 words that follow that heading in a standard copy of the Constitution : it's a particular change worked in the text of the Constitution, a change ...

The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment, Article I, ...