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 ...

Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) procedural maneuver challenging the jurisdiction of the Senate over a former president pretty much squelched any chance of convicting Donald Trump at his upcoming impeachment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When one political party, be it Democratic or Republican, controls the executive and both legislative branches of the federal government, the checks and balances inherent in the U.S. Constitution fail ...

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The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

Utah lawmakers recently approved a resolution calling on Congress to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Lexington, Ky on April 5, 2021 (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley).

For a couple of years, specifically 2010 and 2011, far-right activists pushed a muddled constitutional message. On the one hand, conservatives claimed to be the true, unyielding champions of the ...