To all intents and purposes, President Rajapaksa has apparently utilised Article 41C(2) of the 17th Amendment for this purpose. This constitutional article, in actual fact, applies in the converse to ...

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 turmoil in the U.S. Senate caused by Barak Obama’s elections is a good opportunity to promote the repealing of the 17th Amendment which changed the Constitution and allowed for Senators to ...

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 ...

JACKSON, MI – Jackson College’s most recent attempt at a millage restoration has failed with voters, marking the 17th ...

But to Roberts, the Constitution's 17th Amendment clearly gives the state legislatures this power. "What chumps!" Roberts wrote of the historical figures who pushed for that amendment.