[aruanan]

“Amen! Repeal the 17th and you’ll sink [sic] the Federal Government shrink.” That would require a Con Con - is it time to broach that topic?

No, it wouldn't, any more than the repeal of prohibition required a constitutional convention.

[SeattleBruce]

Sorry, you’re right. It would take 2/3rds vote of both Houses of Congress to propose such a repeal (meaning 67 Senators), ‘and ratified by three-fourths of the states or by three-fourths of conventions thereof, the method of ratification being determined by Congress at the time of proposal.’

Now are we talking about the 17th - direct election of Senators or the 16th - the federal income tax amendment?