The Seventeenth Amendment:
A Cancer on our Constitutional Republic
Crushing the Rights of the Sovereign States
of the Union

Destroying the checks and balances between the states and the federal government:

UPDATE (March 2010): The documents obtained at the National Archives in Washington, DC in 2009 are now scanned and posted; click here.

• Why should we repeal the 17th Amendment and forfeit our right to vote for U.S. senators?
  Interview with Montana State Rep. Jerry O'Neil
  
• Olympia Snowe, health care, and the Seventeenth Amendment
  
• States must force 17th Amendment showdown
  
• Information Paper – Seventeenth Amendment - August 2004
  Prepared for: Rep. Henry McElroy
  
• Scrap 17th Amendment
  Denver Business Journal, January 1, 1999
  
• Illlegals invasion & the Seventeenth Amendment
  
• The gray wolf, the ESA & the 17th Amendment

Federal Jurisdiction and treaties:

James Madison

• Jurisdiction Questioned
  
• Treaties Empower Congress to Ignore States Rights
  
• FDA, DEA Find Basis in International Treaties
  
• The Seventeenth Amendment: Should it be repealed?
  Why The Direct Election Of Senators May Have Been A Serious Mistake,
  And One That Helps Explain The Supreme Court's States' Rights Views
  By John W. Dean, Sep. 13, 2002
  
• Former U.S. Senator Zell Miller - Dump the Seventeenth
  
• NH Votes on Seventeenth Amendment Resolution
  
• Some of model resolution by States - will not happen
  
• Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
  By James Madison - These are the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, an essential guide to interpreting the intent of the Framers.
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress

Per historywiz.com: Chaplain Jacob Duché leading the first prayer in the First Continental Congress at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, September 1774: mezzotint, 1848.- Granger Collection - artist unknown