Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913. Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two ...

The Seventeenth Amendment was approved and ratified to make the Constitution more democratic. Progressives argued forcefully, persistently, and ultimately successfully that the democratic ...

Under the Constitution, in short ... and eventually in the Seventeenth Amendment (which was ratified in 1913)—as well as by their own constitutions—by explicitly barring the states from ...

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 ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

the consequences of bypassing the Constitution will come home to roost as it were. This was what befell even more powerful Presidents in the past who indeed, thought themselves invincible. What does ...