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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LOUISVILLE, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1865. The Senate, on the 17th, tabled the resolution recommending the anti-slavery amendment of the Constitution, with an amendment requiring the owners' consent and ...