Amendment 16 went into effect July 29. Amendment 17 could be adopted by the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council in two weeks. And between the two, ...

Amendment XVII Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913. Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment. The Senate of the United States shall be ...

The 17th Amendment removes the power to choose US Senators from state legislatures and gives it directly to voters in each state. Beginning in the 1830's, the influence that state legislatures had ...

If the 17th Amendment was not in place, then Rand Paul would not have been elected to the United States Senate. In fact, a Democrat would most certainly be on his way to Washington instead.

The 17th Amendment, adopted in 1913, requires U.S. senators to be elected by popular vote rather than by state legislatures. Doug Masson argued that this would be a bad idea, but he missed most of ...

But in my defense, let me initially note that the 17th amendment has not yet ended the legal but appalling bribery of U.S. senators -- it has merely moved it to Washington.

Two recent Tea Party-backed candidates who had success in beating Washington-designated candidates are quite taken with the idea of repealing the 17th amendment. Ratified in 1913, it provides for ...