Subject: electing U.S. senators from two equipopulous districts?
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 11/29/2004, 10:04 AM
To: election-law

<x-flowed>I received an e-mail pointing me to this "Wikipedia" entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_Congress#Elections_Schedule_for_US_Senate
which states that U.S. Senators could be elected in each state from two districts of equal population. (The Wikipedia is a kind of public encyclopedia in which anyone can edit and enter information.)
The 17th Amendment provides that "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."  Does anyone know if the language "elected by the people thereof" has been interpreted to preclude election of senators of a state from two equally populated districts?
Rick

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