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Today in Legal History

by Bryan W. Wolford on 05/31/10

On May 31, 1917, the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became certified by the Secretary of State. 36 of the 48 states in the Union ratified the amendment, which mandated that the two Senators from each state were to be elected by the people of the state rather than the state legislature. 

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