Tag Archives | 17th Amendment

In a recent post and a forthcoming National Review article, co-blogger Todd Zywicki argues that repealing the Seventeenth Amendment would be an important step towards protecting federalism and limiting federal power. Todd is one of the leading academic experts on the Seventeenth Amendment. But I respectfully disagree with him on this point. I outlined my […]

Many conservatives and libertarians believe that the 1913 adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment – which requires that senators be elected by popular vote, rather than by state legislatures – was a great mistake that led to a vast expansion of federal power. As Gene Healey puts it in a recent op ed, they assert that […]