17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment changed the election of Senators from state legislators. The 17th Amendment elects Senators by popular vote of the constituents.
They were chosen by state legislators
The 17th amendment made it to where senators were elected by popular vote, not by state legislators.
The 17th Amendment adopted in 1913.
ratification of a constitutional amendment.
The 17th amendment took the power for selecting senators from the state legislators and gave it to the populous. This made the senatorial races a direct election instead of an indirect election.
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution calls for the direct election of senators. Before its ratification in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. The amendment gives citizens the power to vote directly for their senators in elections.
Before the ratification of the 17th Amendment each state's legislature elected the two U.S. Senators. Direct election of Senators allowed to voting public to vote for the Senators of their choice.
Direct election of senators to Congress occurred because of the 17th constitutional amendment.
The seventeenth amendment to the US constitution, which was ratified on May 31, 1913, made it so that senators would be elected directly to the senate by voters. Before this Senators were appointed by the state legislators (Legislators from Delaware would choose the Senators for Delaware etc.). Before this only the representatives were directly elected. The amendment was one of the parts of the platform for the populists and later, the progressives.
It is stipulated in the body of the Constitution, Article I, Sec. 3, clause 1; it is not an Amendment. Originally, it was the State Legislatures that chose Senators, now it is the people of the State, by direct vote.
The seventeenth amendment addressed the issue and process of the election of the US senators.