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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes Article I, Section 3 , Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures .
The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment, Article I, Section 3 provided that the Senators were chosen ...
The Seventeenth Amendment (1913) modifies the way senators are elected. It stipulates that senators are to be elected by direct popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2, under which the two senators from each state were elected by the state legislature.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
0–9. Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution; Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Goals floated by the movement include a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on a variety of federal officials, a repeal of the 17th amendment and a limit on the size of the U.S. Supreme ...
Proponents of the new amendment explained that their purpose was to “make it harder for lawmakers to — at some later time — legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state.”
2.2 Fourth Amendment. 2.3 Fifth Amendment. 2.4 Sixth Amendment. 2.5 Eighth Amendment. 2.6 Fourteenth Amendment. ... Free Exercise Clause; Free Speech Clause; Free ...