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	Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Biocrawler
		The framers of the Constitution believed that in electing senators, state legislatures would cement their tie with the national government, which would increase the chances for ratifying the Constitution.
		The 17th Amendment is one of the "Progressive Amendments", which were all passed around the same time and with the support of this political group.
		The other Progressive amendments were: the 16th amendment (created the income tax); the 18th amendment (started Prohibition of alcoholic beverages); and the 19th amendment (gave women the right to vote).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (1237 words)

	NARA \| The National Archives Experience
		All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
	www.archives.gov /national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html (1406 words)

	ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Constitution of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
		The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
		The amendment was rejected by Mississippi (and not subsequently ratified) on December 20, 1962.
	www.law.emory.edu /FEDERAL/usconst/amend.html (2848 words)

	Notes on the Amendments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		The ratification of the 13th Amendment was a major victory for the North, and it was hoped that with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, the effects of slavery in the United States would quickly diminish.
		Though ratification of the 15th Amendment was not a requirement for readmittance to the Congress of the Confederate states, one of the provisions of the Reconstruction Acts required that the states include a provision in their new constitutions that included a near-copy of the text of the 15th.
		Anthony later used the 15th Amendment as rationale for voting in a New York election, and though she was tried and fined for voting, the ordeal proved an impetus for the eventual guarantee of voting rights for women.
	www.usconstitution.net /constamnotes.html (4359 words)

	FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Amendments
		The amendment was rejected by Georgia on July 24, 1919; by Alabama on September 22, 1919; by South Carolina on January 29, 1920; by Virginia on February 12, 1920; by Maryland on February 24, 1920; by Mississippi on March 29, 1920; by Louisiana on July 1, 1920.
		The amendment was rejected by a convention in the State of South Carolina, on December 4, 1933.
		Proclamation was by the Archivist of the United States, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. Sec.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /data/constitution/amendments.html (3838 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: The Constitution of the USA
		The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
		The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
		A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/const.htm (2795 words)

	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
		Amendment XI (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Mar. 5, 1794, by the Third Congress.
		Amendment XV (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Feb. 27, 1869, by the Fortieth Congress.
		Amendment XX (The proposed amendment, sometimes called the “Lame Duck Amendment,” was sent to the states Mar. 3, 1932, by the Seventy-second Congress.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0749825.html (2079 words)

	STRATEGY
		If 13 states decided the 17th Amendment should be rescinded and passed resolutions accordingly, for example, the amendment would be effectively abrogated, since three fourths of the states would no longer support it as required.
		By a strange quirk of fate the 17th Amendment was never ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states as the Constitution requires.
		Needing the 17th Amendment to advance their agendas, the proponents of global governance, free trade and loss of our sovereignty have immense power in Washington but have little or no power in state legislatures where labor unions are extremely powerful in many states.
	www.sovereigncause.org /strategy.html (1711 words)

	REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT
		Amendment was passed because of a procedural problem in the original concept and not because of a need to alter the balance of power.
		This would reinstate the states' linkage to the federal political process and would, thereby, have the effect of elevating the present status of the state legislatures from that of lobbyists, to that of a partner in the federal political process.
		After passage, it would primarily be the state legislatures interacting with their appointed senators, and not with the other branches of the federal government, that would establish the "line" between the federal and state governments.
	www.articlev.com /repeal_the_17th_amendment.htm (2182 words)

	The Constitution of the United States
		The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, [chosen by the Legislature thereof,] Altered by 17th Amendment for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
		A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
		The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
	www.constitution.org /usconsti.htm (4078 words)

	ESR \| December 2, 2002 \| Repeal the 17th Amendment
		The 17th Amendment was passed because of a procedural problem in the original concept and not because of a need to alter the balance of power.
		This would reinstate the states' linkage to the federal political process and would, thereby, have the effect of elevating the present status of the state legislatures from that of lobbyists, to that of a partner in the federal political process.
		All state legislative proceedings, including, but not limited to, those concerning the liaison committee, procedural issues, and the selection and removal of a Senator are open to the public.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1202/120217thamend.htm (1134 words)

	Constitution for the United States of America
		The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
		ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
		Note: Amendment 14, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 1 of the 26th amendment.
	deoxy.org /fz/consti.htm (4499 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS The ratification of this Amendment was the outcome of increasing popular dissatisfaction with the operation of the originally established method of electing Senators.
		State laws were amended so as to enable voters participating in primary elections to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat, and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.
		Although their action rested upon no stronger foundation that common understanding, the legislatures generally elected the winning candidate of the majority, and, indeed, in two States, candidates for legislative seats were required to promise to support, without regard to party ties, the senatorial candidate polling the most votes.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/amdt17.html (386 words)

	Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Summary
		The last state needed to ratify was Connecticut which ratified it in 1913, one year prior to the United States Senate election, 1914.
		The Seventeenth Amendment is one of the "Progressive Amendments"; they were passed during the Progressive Era, with the support of the political group known as the "Progressives".
		Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution from Wíkipedia.
	www.bookrags.com /Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution (2095 words)

	NCSLnet Search Results: 2004 State Initiatives and Referenda
		The proposed amendment would change this language to provide that no person "who has been adjudicated mentally incompetent, unless restored to legal capacity," shall be entitled to vote in Nevada.
		This section also states that a vacancy in the office of United States Senator must be filled by the Legislature in a joint convention.
		The provision was nullified in 1913 with the adoption of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides for the direct, popular election of United States Senators and the filling of vacancies in the office of United States Senator through a vote of the people.
	www.ncsl.org /ncsldb/elect98/irsrch.cfm?recid=2355 (290 words)

	Repeal the 17th - Mises Institute
		The 17th Amendment was passed because of a procedural problem in the original concept and not because of a need to alter the balance of power.
		Instead, the 17th Amendment should have fixed the procedural problems and left the balance of power between the states and the federal government intact.
		The impact of the 17th Amendment upon that issue and the states' present ability to exercise the original power granted to them by the Framers of our Constitution is clear.
	www.mises.org /story/533 (1009 words)

	Why Repeal 17th Amendment?
		The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
		But since the passage of the 17th Amendment, rather than being appointed by the State Legislatures, they too must run expensive election campaigns and, instead of checking the problem, they are now part of the problem.
		Since the enactment of the 17th Amendment, the states have been reduced from an equal l partner with the Federal Government to a common lobbyist, which has resulted with the loss of State Sovereignty, State Rights and a host of Federal mandates some funded and some unfunded.
	www.liberty-ca.org /repeal17/states/montana2003oneil.htm (1860 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Bill of Rights
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
		The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
		The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on account of sex.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/amends.htm (1453 words)

	Second Amendment to the United States Constitution... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	AMMENDMENTS TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
		The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
		The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
	www.superkids.com /aweb/pages/features/netporn/amndmnts.htm (1406 words)

	U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Constitution of the United States
		Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government.
		Membership in the House is apportioned according to the population of the states.
		The 13th amendment abolished slavery and the 14th amendment provided that representation would be determined according to the whole number of persons in each state, not by the “three-fifths” of the slaves.
	www.senate.gov /civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm (3655 words)

	Alan Keyes's Daffy Idea to Repeal the 17th Amendment
		William A. Clark was a wealthy silver miner from Montana whom the legislature in that state sent to the Senate in 1899.
		By then the direct election of senators had become a constitutional amendment and was on its way to ratification.
		State legislatures are not the answer to improving the Senate any more than they were in 1900.
	www.hnn.us /articles/6822.html (724 words)

	Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Tennessee was one of 13 states along a 2,500 mile path of destruction during a 16-hour super tornado outbreak in which 330 people died and 5,484 were injured in the worst tornado outbreak in the history of the United States.
		Her sons sustained and promoted the character and reputation of the State, and elevated the standard of courage, fidelity and patriotism.
		Their death-roll shows that they were in the fore-front of the battle....The sons of Tennessee, of every rank, were conspicuous for dash and steadiness in action, and for the maintenance of regimental and company organizations under all conditions....The great body of the Tennessee troops never fought better than at Shiloh.
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	ThisNation.com--The United States Constitution
		The United States Constitution (click on image at right for high-resolution view) was groundbreaking in numerous ways, establishing a new government, the likes of which the world had never seen.
		The most significant features of the U.S. Constitution are the establishment of the rule of law, the creation of a federal system with a supreme national government, the separation of governmental powers into three branches that check and balance each other, its flexibility and the establishment of a republican form of government.
		The Constitution is considered the supreme law of the land both because of its content and because its authority is derived from the people.
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