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Seventeenth Amendment

The Will of the People

William E. White | Posted 10.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Social Studies, Negative Campaigning, Voting Rights, Civics, Democratic-Republicans, Presidential Election, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Citizens, Civic Education, Seventeenth Amendment, Political Convention, Will of the People, George Washington, American History, u.s. History, John Adams, Voting, Home News
William E. White

Partisanship and rancor are not new. We have not fallen from some republican ideal into a new style of debauchery. Our political battles have been hard-fought and hard-won right from the very beginning.

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Ron Paul and the Tea Parties: States' Rights and the 17th Amendment

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Seventeenth Amendment, Cpac, Debra Medina, Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul, Tea Parties, Politics News
Leonard Zeskind

A year ago, Ron Paul (R-Texas) lectured on what it took to be a true conservative. If you don't like parts of the constitution -- just amend it: "I would like to remove two of them. The 16th and 17th" amendments, Paul said.

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Let The People Choose Their Senators

David O. Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Senator Russ Feingold, Constitution, Senators, Constitutional Amendments, Democracy, Vice President Biden, Blagojevich, Ted Kaufman, Michael Bennett, Kristen Gillibrand, Elections, Beau Biden, Seventeenth Amendment, Special Elections, Politics News
David O. Stewart

Special elections are a lot of trouble and expense: Democracy is a lot of trouble and expense. Despotism is simple. In the eighteenth century, it was difficult to manage elections. Not today.

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