Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Or perhaps, if this focus was directed towards the due functioning of the Constitutional Council (CC) itself, set up under the 17th Amendment to ensure non-politicised appointments to public bodies ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, whether the Equal Rights Amendment is, right now ... but also in proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in the proposing resolutions ...

More than 10 percent of current senators first entered the chamber through appointment. Their numbers will soon grow.

The opposition's part in discrediting the 17th Amendment However, there are exceptions to this rule. For example, the country's main opposition, the United National Party has been severely castigated ...