The anti-17th Amendment forces would need 38 states to ratify a repeal amendment, which is no small task, since two-thirds of Congress or the states would need to agree to offer one up for ratification votes. Only one amendment, the 18th, has ever been repealed, when the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition. Foremost, it gives state governments a direct voice in the federal government and budgeting process, something proponents believe reflect the desire of the Founding Fathers for states to have a dynamic role in Washington.īut other factors would make repeal problematic. Repeal proponents have pointed to several benefits.
The amendment ratified in 1913 still has its critics, particularly among states' rights advocates. That also would put the Republicans four votes over a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority and within three seats of a 67-vote supermajority needed to override a presidential veto. So that would roughly translate to 64 seats for the GOP in the current Senate (under the old pre-17th Amendment rules). Using data from the National Conference of State Legislatures as of February 2018, Republicans control 32 state legislatures, the Democrats control 13 legislatures and 4 legislatures are split (Nebraska's unicameral legislature is not included).
Senate would look if it reflected how Democrats and Republicans currently control state Houses and Senates. Jumping forward to 2018, Constitution Daily looked at the current composition of state legislatures to see how the U.S. Only 2 percent of the races ended in a deadlock-but these deadlocks were devastating, because they prevented patronage jobs from being appointed. Deadlocks could prevent a state from sending someone to Congress. This indirect selection method had its flaws. Senate seat, the legislatures met in a combined session until they could agree on a selection. (The elections were staggered so only one senator was chosen every two or four years.) But if different candidates were preferred for that one U.S. If the two caucuses picked the same person, the race was over and that person was sent to the U.S. Members in each state House and each state Senate, in most cases, would meet separately to pick a candidate as its representative in the U.S. Prior to 1913, when the 17th Amendment was ratified, state legislatures elected two U.S. The answer is simple: It would be probably be much more controlled by the Republicans, with a good chance that it could be a filibuster-proof majority and a chance it could be veto-proof. Senate would look like if its members weren’t directly elected by voters. 218 222 +10 Democrats House Republicans LEAD/WON Democrat Republican Live Last data update: Dec. It’s the 105th anniversary of the 17th Amendment, leading us to consider what today’s U.S.
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