Democracy Without Elections It's time for the courts to recognize the plain meaning of the 17th Amen

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	Democracy Without Elections It's time for the courts to recognize the plain meaning of the 17th Amen

Normn8or

8-13-2009 10:27 AM

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Rest of Article Here... http://www.reason.com/news/show/135397.html

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8-13-2009 3:03 PM

Normn8or

The 17th Amendment... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

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