Repealing the 17th Amendment, which would end the direct election of U.S. senators and return the power of appointing senators to state legislatures, is a popular idea among many conservatives.

April 8 marks the 110th anniversary of the ratification of the 17th Amendment, a change to the U.S. Constitution that replaced the election of U.S. senators by state legislatures with direct ...

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 17th Amendment is the reason the federal government can dictate policy to the states today and the states can do little about it. Adopting the 17th Amendment was a mistake.

The 17th amendment does indeed say that the executive of Kentucky will make such appointments. However, the letter writer left out the rest of the amendment.

Were the 17th Amendment to be repealed, Hassan would not be a senator. Neither would Jeanne Shaheen, Hassan’s Democratic colleague from New Hampshire, where Republicans control the legislature ...

And that makes it all the more curious that he endorsed scrapping the 17th Amendment: Bolduc was effectively urging New Hampshire voters to elect him to the U.S. Senate, where he could advocate ...

U.S. senators are now popularly elected because the public tired of shenanigans | Opinion The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, changed the structure of Congress for the first time since 1789.

Prior to the Amendment, Article I, Section 3 provided that the Senators were chosen by their state legislatures for a term of six years. The 17th Amendment changed the selection process to an ...