state legislatures elected members of the senate before the 17th amendment.
who elected members of the senate before the 17th amendment?
state legislatures
on july 28, 2017, after the health care freedom act was rejected by the senate due to three gop senators, john mccain, susan collins and lisa murkowski voting against the repeal, huckabee called for the repeal of the direct election of senators by the 17th amendment, tweeting "time to repeal 17th amendment. founders had it right-senators chosen by state legislatures. will work for their states and respect 10th amid [sic]". he later also tweeted, "ignorance of history of 17th amendment is revealed by response to my earlier tweet. direct election of senate is major cause of swamp," as a reference to one of president donald trump's slogans "drain the swamp".
political positions of mike huckabee
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on 13 april 2005, in the "judgment on 17th amendment and president's uniform case", chaudhry was one of five supreme court judges who dismissed all petitions challenging president musharraf's constitutional amendments. in a wide-ranging judgement they declared that the legal framework order (lfo) instituted by general musharraf after his suspension of the constitution, the 17th amendment which gave this constitutional backing, and the two offices bill which allowed musharraf to retain his military uniform whilst being president were all legal because the parliament had approved the amendments.





























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iftikhar muhammad chaudhry