Washington State GOP Backs Repeal Of 'Defective' 17th Amendment To The U.S. Constitution Allowing For Direct Election Of Senators - uInterview

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Washington State GOP Backs Repeal Of 'Defective' 17th Amendment To The U.S. Constitution Allowing For Direct Election Of Senators - uInterview

Washington State’s Republican Party approved a resolution calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators. The Amendment was ratified on April 8, 1913. It overrode the Constitution’s provision allowing state legislatures to pick U.S. senators.  The resolution approved at the Washington State GOP convention states that “the Founding Fathers came to a great com…