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The Seventeenth Amendment, which guarantees that voters will elect their own U.S. senators rather than having those senators chosen for them by the state legislature is strangely unpopular in Tea Party circles. Both Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) believe their own elections to the United States Senate should be unconstitutional. Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) called empowering voters to elect senators a mistake, and even Justice Antonin Scalia lamented the decline of so-called states rights throughout the rest of the 20th century as a result of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Earlier this month, six Georgia state lawmakers, Reps. Dustin Hightower (R), Mike Dudgeon (R), Buzz Brockway (R), Josh Clark (R), Kevin Cooke (R) and Delvis Dutton (R) decided to get in on this action, introducing a resolution calling for the Seventeenth Amendment to be repealed:
Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters' Ability To Elect Their Own Senators | ThinkProgress
Earlier this month, six Georgia state lawmakers, Reps. Dustin Hightower (R), Mike Dudgeon (R), Buzz Brockway (R), Josh Clark (R), Kevin Cooke (R) and Delvis Dutton (R) decided to get in on this action, introducing a resolution calling for the Seventeenth Amendment to be repealed:
Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters' Ability To Elect Their Own Senators | ThinkProgress