By taping conversations in the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon was not violating the rights of the people he taped. In fact, Franklin D. Roosevelt and JFK already used a tapping system. The District of Columbia law allows taping conversations as long as at least one participant is aware that there is a recording being made.
A different issue is if those recordings might be evidence of criminal activity. Richard Nixon tried to gain control over the tapes after the federal government seized them, stating that it infringed his personal privacy rights, but he died before the resolution of the legal battle.
I believe that the direct effect of the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment is that it improved representation of the people, because now they were able to directly choose Senators, which made the whole voting process a lot democratic.
<span>Initially, Andrew Jackson wanted to avoid annexing Texas because he knew it would lead to a war with Mexico. Eventually it was done and did lead to a big war the Mexico and the US gained more land.</span>
November 22, 1916 very sadly..
