The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to center stage in the new debate over constitutional first principles fostered by the Tea ...

Washington State’s Republican Party approved a resolution calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators. The ...

New York Times Coverage Avoids the Third Rails of Sex Trafficking The now 110-year-old alteration to the Constitution definitively altered the balance of power away from the states and toward the ...

Indiana State Sen. Jim Smith (R-Charleston) is calling on his state to rescind its ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States ...

You've already heard about most of the important issues in Missouri's U.S. Senate race, from taxes and budgets to Social Security and Medicare. Now comes the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. U ...

Much has changed since the creation of the Electoral College. The great thing about America is everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some believe the United States is a democracy and the electoral ...

In an "As I See It" published on Nov. 15, Paul F. deLespinasse proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to help "rebalance the power of the states and the federal government" by taking out of ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to ...

The Seventeenth Amendment provides that each state shall have two senators, elected through popular elections. But what if a vacancy arises through death, resignation, or expulsion? The Seventeenth ...

The Aug. 5 letter “GOP attempts to hold power” contends that it would be a violation of the Constitution, specifically the 17th amendment, for the Kentucky Legislature to require the Democratic ...