The Seventeenth Amendment was approved and ratified to make the Constitution more democratic. Progressives argued forcefully, persistently, and ultimately successfully that the democratic ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment ...

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

but also in proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in the proposing resolutions that specified which changes were to be made in the Constitution ...

In the latter instance, the argument was interestingly that the basic features contained in Article 41B of the Constitution (brought in by the 17th Amendment) did not permit the President to wield ...

Combined with the bicameral system created by the Constitution ... than if they were required to vote as a block. The Seventeenth Amendment profoundly altered Article I, Section 3 by providing ...

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article ...

but also in the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in proposing resolutions that specified which changes were to be made in the Constitution, altering the ...

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

A curiously piquant clause in the present Constitution (see Article 116 of the 1978 Constitution renumbered as Article 111C by the 17th Amendment), specifies dire sanctions including deprivation of ...