Electing the senate : indirect democracy before the seventeenth amendment /
"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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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