... George Will's latest column in Washington Post .. jumps all over Russ Feingold for his proposed change to the 17th Amendment, ending gubernatorial appointments to Senate vacancies, and requiring special elections to fill the seats. Will thinks we'd be better off just getting rid of the 17th Amendment ...
.. George Will Thinks We Should Repeal The 17th Amendment
February 22, 2009 08:00 PM
By Nicole Belle
Just after the 2010 election, Justice Antonin Scalia decided to explain the parts of the Constitution he doesn't like. "The 17th Amendment has changed things enormously," Scalia said. "We changed that in a burst of progressivism in 1913, and you can trace the decline of so-called states' rights throughout the rest of the twentieth century." A sinister "burst of progressivism" is unconstitutional -- and so, Andrew Napolitano of Fox News insists, is the 17th Amendment itself, because it was added "at the height of the progressive era, when the government started telling us how to live" ...
Constitutional Myth #9: The Election of Senators 'Harms' the States
The 17th Amendment removed a firewall of privilege -- which is why the Right doesn't like it
GARRETT EPPSJUL
20 2011, 1:01 AM ET
... Georgia state Rep. Buzz Brockaway ..., a Republican, has introduced a bill in the state legislature to repeal the 17th Amendment ... Texas Gov. Rick Perry supports it; so do GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Flake of Arizona. (Republican Indiana Sen. candidate Richard Mourdock endorsed the idea during his campaign last year, before, in an ironic twist, losing the popular vote.) ...
Georgia Legislators Propose Ending Direct Election of Senators—Why Not Just Get Rid of the Senate?
Fri Feb. 15, 2013 10:45 AM PST
—By Tim Murphy
PHOENIX — A freshman southern Arizona lawmaker is leading the effort to strip Arizona voters of the right to nominate U.S. senators. The proposal by Rep. David Stevens, R-Sierra Vista, would give that right to the elected legislators from each party. Only after that process is complete would voters get a say, in the general election, who they actually want to send to Washington. Stevens said his measure, if approved by Arizona voters in November, would be a partial return to the way things were before the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted ...
Bill would let legislators nominate U.S. senators
BY HOWARD FISCHER, CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
February 08, 2010 9:45 PM
... I have had multiple questions about HB 415 ... that would put the nomination of US Senators in the hand of the Legislature like the Framers of the original Constitution ...
Should the Tenn. state legislature select the primary candidate for U.S. Senate?
April 2, 2013
Six Republicans Who Think Voters Should Not Be Able To Choose Their Own Senators
BY IAN MILLHISER ON AUGUST 13, 2012 AT 2:30 PM
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