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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Hauptverfasser: Schiller, Wendy J., 1964- (Verfasst von), Stewart, Charles Haines (Verfasst von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in American politics.
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