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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 .
There has only been one major change to the way the government functions: the 17th Amendment, allowing the direct election of senators. ... Insofar as we can fix our problems without recourse ...
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called to repeal the 17th Amendment on Tuesday, which would eliminate the requirement that U.S. senators be elected by popular votes.In a Wall Street Journal op-ed ...
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 ...
On June 15, 1913, Bacon was elected by the general populace without opposition, becoming the first senator elected under the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Bacon died in early 1914, however, leading to another interim appointment and eventual special election.
The release of the series precipitated the passage and ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provides the direct election of the U.S. senators. [3] In the seven years it took to ratify the Amendment, some of the 20 senators criticized by Phillips in the articles resigned or died.
The [taxpayer's] petition in this case, while rambling and lengthy, appears to rely primarily on arguments that neither the Internal Revenue Service nor this Court has authority to determine petitioner's tax liability because the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which changed the method of electing senators to the U.S. Congress, was ...
Main Article: 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1913 the 17th amendment was passed and signed into law. This amendment effectively defeated Hamilton's argument on the matter of the election of senators and the necessary evil that he saw as a check by the states on the power of the federal government.