Constitutional Law
Jun. 17, 2010
Call to Repeal The Seventeenth Amendment
Donald Kochan of Chapman University School of Law School writes about attempts to repeal the 17th Amendment, which changed the manner of selecting senators.
Tea Party activists have ignited a new interest in the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution with a campaign calling for its repeal. Before now, the 17th Amendment was largely an obscure subject relegated to academic discourse among legal scholars, and even then only between a few that devoted articles to the subject. When I embarked on researching the 17th Amendment's history and impact in 1998, it was fanciful to believe that t...
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