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Think, based on their own writings would be stunned by whats going on. so i think we ought to try and portray what they were intending to do. >> lets go to the second amendment to call to restore the senate and the first thing you do, the 17th amendment is here by repealed and all senators shall be chosen by the state legislators as rescribed by article i. anybody disagree? terry jeffrey. well get to you in a second. this was the original intention and the way we used to do it. explain. >> and i...

Think, based on their own writings would be stunned by whats going on. so i think we ought to try and portray what they were intending to do. >> lets go to the second amendment to call to restore the senate and the first thing you do, the 17th amendment is here by repealed and all senators shall be chosen by the state legislators as rescribed by article i. anybody disagree? terry jeffrey. well get to you in a second. this was the original intention and the way we used to do it. explain. >> and i...

Think, based on their own writings would be stunned by whats going on. so i think we ought to try and portray what they were intending to do. >> lets go to the second amendment to call to restore the senate and the first thing you do, the 17th amendment is here by repealed and all senators shall be chosen by the state legislators as rescribed by article i. anybody disagree? terry jeffrey. well get to you in a second. this was the original intention and the way we used to do it. explain. >> and i...

Of office because they wanted these people to have a real true understanding of what their constituents were thinking and what they were feeling. as a matter of fact, really, congress is part time. farmers continued to farm. businessmen continued to be businessmen. and you can see the problem today. you have members of congress who represent certain industries or unions or interests, as much or more than their constituents or states. you have an example. let me also talk about the 17th amendment...

Of office because they wanted these people to have a real true understanding of what their constituents were thinking and what they were feeling. as a matter of fact, really, congress is part time. farmers continued to farm. businessmen continued to be businessmen. and you can see the problem today. you have members of congress who represent certain industries or unions or interests, as much or more than their constituents or states. you have an example. let me also talk about the 17th amendment...

But it was a public election. >> thats right. what they were ai iaiming at wae legislature, to vote one of them to the senate. thats the way it was done till the 17th amendment in 1913. >> to say, if you want me, then you have to vote for this slate of candidates. >> right, which was a better way to do it then, than later. candidates were going around saying, ill pay off your mortgage if youll vote for me. >> seems how the president got the reputation of being a retirement club for millionaires....

Androgel 1.62%. daily flashback to this day in 1913 when secretary of state william jennings certified the 17th amendment as part of the constitution forever altering the political landscape in this country the 17th amendment provides for the popular election of u.s. senators shifting voting from state legislators to the states voters. there was a controversy about that, rand paul if you guys remember that. tribute time. we asked who was the first president to have full-time secret service pro...

Were trying to eliminate some of the bill of rights. this is a more speedy trial. >> steve: we dont need those rights, do we? guess what? it gets even more embarrassing. the guy with the clip board is going to join us live. "fox & friends" hour two for this friday starts right now. >> steve: unfortunately, i think when a lot of people hear 7th amendment, they dont know whats that. so if theyre going to get rid of it, sure, why not? >> brian: i love as theyre signing, as he continues to expand on...

Wednesday night. congratulations. >> steve: sorry, "american idol." meanwhile, the sixth and 7th amendments to the constitution guarantee you the right to a fair and speedy trial. also a jury trial by your peers. but you wont believe how many people just decided they heard that, they just gave up those constitutional rights. >> the 6 and 7th amendments have just become a nuisance in the war on terror. were trying to repeal the 7th amendment and the 6th, too. that will help speed up the trial pro...

To have taken the bill off the calendar for now. the senate sponsor saying hes just going to wait a while on this. but its not just some republicans in tennessee who are going there, who think that people should stop electing our senators. across the state line in georgia, republicans also have a bill calling for voters to lose that particular voting right. the georgia measure has not gone much of anywhere yet but it is still kicking around. and it may seem like a weird idea, but ending democrac...