Talk:The Seventeenth Amendment

United States Constitution/Amendment Seventeen is just the text. There will eventually be commentary, history, etc., and I guess this is the way to do it. --MichaelTinkler --- of course, I just realized that the nomenclature needs to change. Should commentary be attached to each original text under a link called /Commentary?

Since there are other amendments to other documents, which are numbered (or so I guess), I don't think "The Seventeenth Amendment" is a good name for it. Eventually we could have Seventeenth Amendment (U.S. Constitution), for example.

We shouldn't have or encourage our own commentary on the amendments. I imagine the best thing to do, for now, is to move the text of the amendments to United States Constitution/Amendment N Text and legal knowledge about the amendments, and history, etc., under the present amendment pages such as the United States Constitution/Amendment Seventeen. Kind of a headache... --LMS - not particularly, now that I have a clue. I just think that the bare amendments are not particularly informative - since they don't show what was amended! And then there's the history (the so-called "progressiveness" of direct election, which is what has led to the "progressiveness" of "campaign finance reform" etc., etc. *sigh*.

I'll move it. --MichaelTinkler