Seventeenth Amendment

Examples of Seventeenth Amendment in the following topics:

• The 17th Amendment

  • The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
  • State the change in the manner of electing Senators effected by the 17th Amendment

• Features of Progressivism

  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people, instead of by state legislatures.
  • In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and a small income tax imposed on high incomes.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.

• Bicameralism

  • In fact, it was not until the year 1913 that the Seventeenth Amendment was passed, which "mandated that Senators would be elected by popular vote rather than chosen by the State legislatures. " As part of the Great Compromise, they invented a new rationale for bicameralism in which the upper house would have states represented equally, and the lower house would have them represented by population.

• Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

  • In response to this pressure the Senate finally relented and approved what later became the Seventeenth Amendment for fear that such a convention—if permitted to assemble—might stray to include issues above and beyond the direct election of U.S.
  • Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified, Congress has specified the method of ratification through state conventions for only one: the 21st Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1933.
  • The states unanimously ratified the Bill of Rights; the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment, providing for equal protection and due process; the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting; and the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women a federal constitutional right to vote.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • Until the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, Senators were elected by state legislatures, not the electorate of states.
  • Popular election to the Senate was standardized nationally in 1913 by the ratification of the 17th Amendment.

• Eligibility of Congressmen

  • Until the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1913, Senators were elected by state legislatures, not the electorate of states.
  • Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a federal or state officer who takes the requisite oath to support the Constitution, but later engages in rebellion or aids the enemies of the United States, is disqualified from becoming a representative.

• The 19th Amendment

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
  • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

• The Second Amendment

  • The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
  • Ideals that helped to inspire the Second Amendment in part are symbolized by the minutemen.

• The First Amendment

  • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
  • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

  • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
  • State the source of revenue made constitutional by the 16th Amendment