The Seventeenth Amendment:
A Cancer on our Constitutional Republic
Crushing the Rights of the Sovereign States
of the Union

Destroying the checks and balances between the states and the federal government:

UPDATE (March 2010): The documents obtained at the National Archives in Washington, DC in 2009 are now scanned and posted; click here.

• Why should we repeal the 17th Amendment and forfeit our right to vote for U.S. senators?
  Interview with Montana State Rep. Jerry O'Neil
  
• The legal necessity for concurrence in legislative acts
• Olympia Snowe, health care, and the Seventeenth Amendment
  
• States must force 17th Amendment showdown
  
• Information Paper – Seventeenth Amendment - August 2004
  Prepared for: Rep. Henry McElroy
  
• Scrap 17th Amendment
  Denver Business Journal, January 1, 1999
  
• Illlegals invasion & the Seventeenth Amendment
  
• The gray wolf, the ESA & the 17th Amendment
• The Unconstitutional EPA Must Be Abolished
• Can A State Ignore A Constitutional Amendment?

How to restore states’ sovereignty:
Exclusive: Devvy Kidd challenges ratification of 17th Amendment

Federal Jurisdiction and treaties:

James Madison

• Jurisdiction Questioned
  
• Treaties Empower Congress to Ignore States Rights
  
• FDA, DEA Find Basis in International Treaties
  
• The Seventeenth Amendment: Should it be repealed?
  Why The Direct Election Of Senators May Have Been A Serious Mistake,
  And One That Helps Explain The Supreme Court's States' Rights Views
  By John W. Dean, Sep. 13, 2002
  
• Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller - Dump the Seventeenth
  
• NH Votes on Seventeenth Amendment Resolution
  
• Some of model resolution by States - will not happen
  
• Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
  By James Madison - These are the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, an essential guide to interpreting the intent of the Framers.
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress

New items:

Republican Candidates Call for Repeal of Seventeenth Amendment

Tearing down walls

NATRONA COUNTY TRIBUNE, 1911

Still chosen by legislatures — “DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS.

“Nobody will be surprised that the [U.S.] senate rejected the proposition for an amendment of the constitution for the election of senators by direct vote, but that it lacked only four of the two-thirds will be decidedly surprising. Thirty-three republicans and twenty-one democrats supported the proposition, while twenty-four republicans and nine democrats opposed it. Moreover, most of those democrats were against it because it was coupled with a clause which would give the national government a large measure of control over the elections in every state."

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Outstanding book:

Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy

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S.J. 35 - 2004 - 108th Congress

Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment

A Real Separation Of Powers

Rethinking The 17th Amendment

Senate president wants 17th Amendment repealed

Lawmaker believes Legislature should select U.S. senators [AZ]

Idaho State Rep. Seeks Repeal of 17th Amendment

Should the 17th Amendment be repealed?

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Senate, Madison 62 & continuation at 63 - The Federalist Paper

While you can't repeal a law that doesn't exist (so many don't know it was not ratified by enough states), but this is well done:

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REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT By John MacMullin

Also by MacMullin:

"Amplifying the Tenth Amendment," 31 Ariz.L.R. 915 (1989)

Per historywiz.com: Chaplain Jacob Duché leading the first prayer in the First Continental Congress at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, September 1774: mezzotint, 1848.- Granger Collection - artist unknown