The article, "The continuing fall of federalism" by George Will from the State newspaper is talking about the rise and the continuing fall of federalism. Sen. Russ Feingold said that he was reluctant to tamper with the document, basically some governors are acting real strange when appointing people to fill U.S senate vacancies, some governors are even putting U.S senate seats up for auction, charging people to get the seat, like the governor from Illinois charging people for President Barack Obama's former senate seat, but the 17th Amendment says "when Senate vacancies occur, “the executive authority” of the affected state “shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies".
The 17th Amendment also said that the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. So basically the governor has no power to fill the Senate seats without permission from the executive branch, Feingold said the holding a election is very necessary to have to make it easier so they will be any confusing.
And you can think the McCain-Feingold speech for empowering the government to regulate the quantity, timing and content of political speech. And with the 1st Amendment now in full effect which says That "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech unless it really, really wants to in order to guarantee that there will be only as much speech about the government as the government considers appropriate, and at times the government approves.”
This was written in order to prove that crime does not pay if you want to fill a vacant spot for a seat you should follow the rules, the audience was directed toward the governors who break the rules in trying to fill seats on their own, the agrument that the arthor wants to make is about the governors trying to break rules and about the fall of federalism
