When the Cabinet recently decided to set the 17th Amendment at naught in regard to the proper functioning of key Commissions established under it, its language was deliberately if not quite admirably ...
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment ...
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State ...
Naturally, much effort is expended in holding political rulers to account while the critique of the opposition may fall by the wayside. The opposition's part in discrediting the 17th Amendment However ...
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913 ...
"Unfortunately, since the 17th Amendment, many have become beholden to DC special interests and complicit in the erosion of liberty and acceleration of America's move to a post-constitutional era ...
But to Roberts, the Constitution's 17th Amendment clearly gives the state legislatures this power. "What chumps!" Roberts wrote of the historical figures who pushed for that amendment.
TRAI also increased the validity period for special tariff vouchers to 365 days from the current 90 days. Issuing the Telecom Consumer Protection (12th Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and the ...