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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 ...
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Direct election of senators has only been in place since the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1912. Initially, the Constitution called for them to be appointed by state legislatures.
[2] [3] Since the passage of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913, U.S. senators are elected directly to six-year terms by the voters of each state at the general election held on Election Day. Special elections may be held to fill mid-term vacancies by electing an individual to serve the remainder of the unexpired term. [4]
The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, January 23, 1933; Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd president of the United States on March 4, 1933; The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, December 5, 1933
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 ...