This article was written by a man named George F. Will. Will is a writter for the Washington Post. This article appeared on a website called The State.com which is a South Carolina based website. This article was written to inform people in general about the proposed rattification of the seventeenth amendment of the constitution proposed by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold and suppoted by Republican presidential nominee John McCain. The seventeenth amendment states that when a senate vacancy occurs the exective authority of the affected state shall isue writs of the election to fill such vacancies: provided that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments untill the people fill the vacancies by election. Senator Feingold states that the state "needs to be as resposive to the people as possible."
Senator Feingold wants to make some small changes to the amendment senator Feigold proposes that the amenment be changed in this regard, he states that "No person shall be a Senator from a state unless such person has been elected by the people thereof, when vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the executive authority of each state shall issue writs of elections to fill such vacancies."
I dont see that much difference between Mr. Feingolds proposal and the original amendment. while i think that its a good proposal i dont think that the original needs to be changed because they are both very similiar. I think that the constitution is fine the way it is. The author of this article also shares this opinion that the constitution should be left alone. The author points out that the amendment would also call for if something happened to president obama that the people would have the authority to choose the next president. i think the president has the right to choose who will be the next president of the united states if something were to happen to him.
