About Jenny Beth

Jenny Beth Martin is an original organizer of the Tea Party movement and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. Under the leadership of Jenny Beth Martin, the organization has grown to be the largest and most effective national umbrella group within the Tea Party movement. Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots use their network to reach millions of Americans every week with education and updates about fiscal responsibility, free market principles, and constitutionally limited government.

Because of her continual involvement in the major events that set the course of the United States government, Jenny Beth Martin is a frequent guest on almost every major television, radio, print, and online news outlet in America. In 2010 Time Magazine listed Jenny Beth Martin as one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in the World. The title she is most proud of is "Mom" to her boy/girl twins. She has been at the forefront, fighting for America's core principles for more than a decade.

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Seventeenth Amendment: One Bought Senate Seat Rewrote the Constitution | Bill Norton
The Jenny Beth ShowAugust 08, 202600:06:42

Seventeenth Amendment: One Bought Senate Seat Rewrote the Constitution | Bill Norton

Seventeenth Amendment: one Illinois senator paid state legislators $2,500 each for his seat. The outrage over it rewrote the Constitution in 1913. Before 1913, United States senators were appointed by their state legislatures. Constitutional scholar Bill Norton makes a point that gets lost in the st...

Seventeenth Amendment: The Clause in Article Five That Should Have Blocked It | Bill Norton
The Jenny Beth ShowAugust 07, 202600:05:43

Seventeenth Amendment: The Clause in Article Five That Should Have Blocked It | Bill Norton

Seventeenth Amendment: Article Five bars any state from losing equal suffrage in the Senate without consent. Bill Norton says 1913 broke that rule. Article Five of the Constitution contains two things the founders said could never be amended. The second one reads: no state, without its consent, shal...

The Seventeenth Amendment: The Case That It Was Never Valid | Bill Norton
The Jenny Beth ShowAugust 07, 202600:00:00

The Seventeenth Amendment: The Case That It Was Never Valid | Bill Norton

The Seventeenth Amendment changed who picks your United States senator, and constitutional scholar Bill Norton argues it was never validly ratified. In 1913 the choice of United States senators moved from state legislatures to a statewide popular vote, and the states lost the one check they held ove...