Senate

Notes for a potential blog post about the filling of Senate vacancies by gubernatorial appointment, and more general notes on the role of the pre-17th Amendment Senate in federalism.

Filling Senate vacancies

http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/12/10/the-more-specific-lesson-of-rod-blagojevich/

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/steve_chapman/2008/12/filling-obamas.html

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/new-york-governor-highlights-the-dismal-record-of-senate-appointments/

http://twitter.com/kevinmarks/statuses/1086525419

Federalism, the Senate, and the 17th Amendment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#Vacancies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Senate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Calls_for_repeal

  • http://federali.st/62
  • http://federali.st/63
  • http://federali.st/64
  • http://federali.st/65
  • http://federali.st/66

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changed February 6, 2009