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 ...

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. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913 ...

Legislature.” Thus, the Constitution gives authority for determining elector qualifications to the states. The Seventeenth Amendment adopted the same qualifications language to apply to the ...

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 ...

Since 1913, when the 17th Amendment to the Constitution established the direct election of senators and provided a means to fill Senate seats vacated due to resignation, death, expulsion or what ...

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 ...