[DOC] [TLE] Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia [PAR] The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States 
Constitution established ... Prior to the Constitution, a federal body was one 
where states effectively formed .... Other counterarguments were that renowned 
senators could not have been elected ... It was adopted by a vote of 64 to 24, with 
4 not voting. [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States [PAR] Its members were elected directly by the voters in the states, and the entire 
House would ... shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he 
shall be chosen. ... In 1913 the 17th amendment provided that senators would be 
directly ..... Every sovereign nation possesses these powers, and Congress has 
acted... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Senate: Electing Senators: A Historical Perspective [PAR] On March 4, 1789, the first group of elected senators reported for duty. ... From 
1789 to 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was 
ratified, senators were elected by state legislatures. Beginning with the 1914 
general election, all U.S. senators have been chosen by direct popular election. [DOC] [TLE] Election of U.S. Senators (Reference) - TeacherVision.com [PAR] These qualifications were established in Article I, Section 3 of the ... If a candidate 
is unopposed, there may not be a primary election. ... Before 1913 senators were 
chosen by their state legislatures. ... The 17th Amendment to the Constitution now 
requires senators to be elected by a direct vote of those s/he will represent. [DOC] [TLE] US Senate Elections before 1914 - DSpace@MIT [PAR] 1913? How were nominees chosen? How much of the election was actually 
secured ... these. Questions about the election of senators before 1914 have 
been asked in ... This paper takes a different tack from this existing body of work, 
by exploring electoral .... We would not consider these elections truly deadlocked, 
instead. [DOC] [TLE] Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth ... [PAR] senators did not derive their electoral mandates from the people at least ... ated 
a data set of these elections by searching the journals of the forty- eight state 
legislatures that were part of the Union as of 1913 in order to recon- struct the roll 
call .... the Senate nationally, the legislative body also provided representation for
. [DOC] [TLE] Articles: Two Tweaks to the Constitution - American Thinker [PAR] Sep 22, 2009 ... In some states, voters can correct their mistakes with a recall ... The recall, 
however, is not available on the federal level. ... Before the 17th Amendment (
1913), U.S. senators were chosen by state ... (Should America have to tolerate 
brain damage in what's billed as "the world's greatest deliberative body"?)... [DOC] [TLE] Senators should serve for life, and other election ideas from the ... [PAR] Nov 4, 2014 ... But did you know if alternative ideas from the Founders were used today, there ... 
Before 1913, the Constitution allowed state legislators to choose two ... of two 
Senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six Years; ... to 
approve United States Senators on today's ballot, not direct voters. [DOC] [TLE] 3. The electoral and party systems  Parliament of Australia [PAR] Until 1949, Senators were elected in much the same way as Representatives, 
except that ... votes of excluded candidates, or any combination of these three 
sources . ... discernible bodies of electoral opinion to be represented in 
Parliament. ... the 1913 and 1929 elections) when the government did not hold a 
majority of... [DOC] [TLE] Regents Prep U.S. History & Government: Multiple-Choice Question ... [PAR] "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they 
are endowed ... Before 1913, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures. 
The President has been elected to office through the Electoral College since 
1789. ... The powers not delegated to the United States . . . are reserved to the 
states . [DOC] [TLE] the seventeenth amendment and federalism in - George Mason ... [PAR] about why the Seventeenth

Question: Prior to 1913 senators were chosen by these bodies, not the voters
Answer: State legislatures