Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913. Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two ...

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State ...

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913 ...

Or perhaps, if this focus was directed towards the due functioning of the Constitutional Council (CC) itself, set up under the 17th Amendment to ensure non-politicised appointments to public bodies ...

Kentucky law requires a special election to fill a Senate vacancy, differing from most states where the governor appoints a replacement.

Unfortunately, whether the Equal Rights Amendment is, right now ... but also in proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in the proposing resolutions ...

Further, no longer will the ingenious cover of a Parliamentary Select Committee's deliberations on the overall amendment of the 17th Amendment suffice to postpone the appointments. It is evident that ...