C H Hoebeke: 1 book
The Road to Mass Democracy
Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Until 1913 and passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, US senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people. Progressive Era reformers urged this revision in answer to the corruption of state "machines" under the dominance of party bosses....
