Should the 17th Amendment be repealed?

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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David Schleicher of Yale University and Todd Zywicki of George Mason University discuss the text, history, and future of this contested amendment. New essays are now available on the Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution. Read about the 17th Amendment, the 20th Amendment, the 24th Amendment, and the 25th Amendment. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. We want to know what you think of the podcast. Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. Today’s show was edited by Kevin Kilbourne and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to
0:08.4	We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.9	The National Constitution Center is the only
0:14.0	institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about
0:18.7	the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:23.0	And before we start today's show, I'm thrilled to announce that the Constitution
0:26.6	Center will award the 2017 Liberty Medal to Senator John McCain on October 16th in Philadelphia.
0:33.7	Our chair, former Vice President Joe Biden,
0:36.2	will bestow the award to Senator McCain, his longtime friend.
0:39.2	It will be a wonderful night of bipartisanship
0:42.4	and recognition of public service and for
0:44.8	information about tickets and more go to Constitution Center.org
0:48.3	forward slash Liberty Medal. Now it's an exciting time at the Constitution Center because we are
0:53.9	releasing a new set of essays for our interactive Constitution which features
0:58.7	America's leading constitutional scholars chosen by the American
1:02.3	Constitution Society and the Federalist Society. including constitutional scholars chosen by the American Constitution
1:03.0	society and the Federalist Society to discuss what they agree and
1:06.6	disagree about every provision of the Constitution. And we're just going live with a
1:11.0	series of amendments including the 17th Amendment, the 20th Amendment,
1:16.1	the 24th Amendment, and the 25th Amendment.
1:19.4	They're now available on the web, they'll soon be available on the app, and on today's show we look at and
1:25.0	celebrate and debate the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, the amendment requires the direct
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