Electing the senate : : indirect democracy before the seventeenth amendment / / Wendy J. Schiller, Charles Stewart III.
"From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people--instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the S...
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