A joint resolution to repeal the seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Constitutional Amendment - Repeals the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (election of Senators). Requires a State legislature to make appointments to the Senate (currently, the people of such State elect the Senators).

Provides that if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of any State legislature, the State executive may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 35 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. J. RES. 35

 To repeal the seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of 
                           the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2004

 Mr. Miller introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
 To repeal the seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of 
                           the United States.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within 7 years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. The seventeenth article of amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
    ``Section 2. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of 
two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for 
six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
    ``Section 3. If vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, 
during the recess of the legislature of any State, the executive 
thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the 
legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
    ``Section 4. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect 
the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes a valid 
part of the Constitution.''.
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