The now 110-year-old alteration to the Constitution definitively altered the balance of power away from the states and toward the national government. Not all change is progress. It’s true for life, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SENATOR Raza Rabbani`s statement assuring the opposition that there was no “wavering” on the part of the government on repealing the 17th Amendment to the constitution is welcome. The PPP and its ...

Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America. As we head toward the 2022 elections, it is a safe bet that few Americans can identify the ...

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 ...

Amending the Constitution is increasingly necessary, whether to replace the Electoral College or to guarantee the right to vote. But the usual question — “It’s too difficult, so why bother?” — is ...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), shown walking into the Capitol in 2021, is under pressure to resign after a lengthy absence from Washington. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images) With ...

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 ...

Amending the Constitution is increasingly necessary, whether to replace the Electoral College or to guarantee the right to vote. But the usual question — “It’s too difficult, so why bother?” — is ...