The Senate we killed in 1913
Whereas the political right has spent decades arguing about the Commerce Clause, the administrative state, and federal overreach generally, the structural mechanism that made it all possible sits in plain sight, unmentioned. The amendment, ratified in 1913, replaced state legislative election of U.S. senators with direct popular election. It sounds like a procedural adjustment, but it wasn’t.
- ▪Whereas the political right has spent decades arguing about the Commerce Clause, the administrative state, and federal overreach generally, the structural mechanism that made it all possible sits in plain sight, unmentioned.
- ▪The amendment, ratified in 1913, replaced state legislative election of U.S. senators with direct popular election.
- ▪It sounds like a procedural adjustment, but it wasn’t.
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| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:30:00 +0000 |
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Opinion>Congress Blog The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill The Senate we killed in 1913 Comments: by Jay Rogers, opinion contributor - 06/03/26 7:30 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Jay Rogers, opinion contributor - 06/03/26 7:30 AM ET Comments: Link copied Greg Nash/The Hill The Seventeenth Amendment is the constitutional change that most conservatives have never thought about. That’s precisely the problem. Whereas the political right has spent decades arguing about the Commerce Clause, the administrative state, and federal overreach generally, the structural mechanism that made it all possible sits in plain sight, unmentioned. The amendment, ratified in 1913, replaced state legislative election of U.S. senators with direct popular election.
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