December, 2005

A Few Final Thoughts on Constitutional Federalism

by Akhil Reed Amar

December 19th, 2005

Dr. Niskanen’s most recent posting points to data from the Senate in 1913 and presents this as the good old days. Let me repeat a point I made earlier: By 1913, quite a few—most, I think—U.S. Senators were in fact directly elected, de facto, by dint of various state systems allowing state voters [...]

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