The 17th Amendment didn't start the federal expansion of the past century, but it cleared the institutional space that made ...

The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to center stage in the new debate over constitutional first principles fostered by the Tea ...

The founders built a structural limit on federal taxing power, a restriction the Progressive Era removed. The government that ...

In an "As I See It" published on Nov. 15, Paul F. deLespinasse proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to help "rebalance the power of the states and the federal government" by taking out of ...