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Special Elections

Let The People Choose Their Senators

David O. Stewart | Posted 04.24.2009 | 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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House Candidate Geoghegan: Senate Appointments Violate Constitution

New York Times | Thomas Geoghegan | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Valenti v. Rockefeller, Roland Burris, Senate Appointments, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, 17th Amendment, Special Elections, Chicago News

IN 2009 four new senators will slip into office -- all in violation of the Constitution, which requires a special election to fill a Senate vacancy. C...

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