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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes Article I, Section 3 , Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures .
A USA Today/Gallup Poll in June 2006 has shown 56% supporting a constitutional amendment, down from 63% favoring a flag burning amendment in Gallup's 1999 poll. [11] [12] [13] Another poll conducted by CNN in June 2006 also found that 56% of Americans supported a flag desecration amendment. [2]
On June 4, 1998, the full House voted on the amendment, 224–203 in favor. The vote was 61 short of the required two-thirds majority. [33] A Flag Desecration Amendment was first proposed in 1995 to give Congress the power to make acts such as flag burning illegal, seeking to supersede the 1990 Supreme Court case Texas v.
Voters considered 14 proposed constitutional amendments and, in Tarrant County, school bond proposals were on the ballot in Azle, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw and Hurst-Euless-Bedford.. Check back here ...
Voters in the state’s constitutional amendment election overwhelmingly supported property tax cuts and a pension increase for retired teachers, while rejecting raising the age when Texas judges ...
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. Senators have been directly elected by state-wide popular vote since the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913. A senate term is six years with no term limit. Every two years a third of the seats are up for election.
Here's how El Pasoans voted on 14 proposals and voters in Vinton and Horizon City decided community government races and infrastructure issues.
The 2024 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Republican incumbent Ted Cruz won re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic challenger and U.S. Representative Colin Allred .