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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 17th Amendment did not affect any senator chosen before it was ratified. Before the 16th Amendment on income taxes, federal government was not as powerful as today Prior to 1913, legislative ...
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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.
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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.”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. by early next year or face a ban ...