The 17th Amendment Turns 100; A Remedy to Political Corruption Has Had Limited Success
It wasJohn Marshall, the nation’s fourth chief justice, who established the power of the Court byasserting its right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. “It is emphatically the duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is,” Marshall wrote in the landmark caseMarbury v....
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. Historical Basis Originally established by the Constitution as a philosophical parallel to the British House of Lords, the United States Senate’s...
Section 1 of the 17th Amendment restates and amends the first paragraph of Article I, section 3 of the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of U.S. senators by replacing the phrase “chosen by the Legislature thereof” with “elected by the people thereof.” Effect of the...
, in 1791, a royal dynasty was established under king kamehameha the great. between cook’s arrival and 1820, more than half of the hawaiian population died from wars, disease or famine. , in 1898, hawaii became a u.s. territory after the americans staged a coup and replaced queen ...
The16th amendment of the Constitution is in violation of the original constitutionand the 17th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence. You cannot amend an inalienable right; and representation does not mean arepresentative as an individual, it means representation of the need by consent. ...
Well, the courts have determined thatLifeis not a clearly established right, that’s how. One could be forgiven for imagining that the words of our Declaration of Independence might serve as ample confirmation of a clearly established right to life:“We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...
On the Thunder Basin National Grassland of northeastern Wyoming, the livestock industry has been pursuing an aggressive campaign to expand poisoning and shooting of prairie dogs. And in 2020, the Forest Service gave them a plan amendment that radically expanded prairie dog killing, and eliminated a...
Taft pushed the passage of the16th amendment(income tax) and reluctantly agreed to support the passage of the17th amendment(direct election of Senators). Anti-Trust Actions Taft was an effective trust-buster and, in fact, many more trust prosecutions were brought about during Taft’s administrati...
But it is time to prepare for a very different future, in which fighting for justice and democracy through our established channels will be much harder, and often impossible, depending on the state or county you live in. It will likely get much darker before we do fight our way back to ...