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gptkbp:instanceOf
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amendment to the United States Constitution
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gptkbp:appliesTo
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gptkb:United_States_Senate
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gptkbp:category
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gptkb:United_States_federal_law
gptkb:Amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
1913 in American law
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gptkbp:effect
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increased democracy in Senate elections
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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17th Amendment
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gptkbp:numberInSeries
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17
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gptkbp:officialName
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gptkb:Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:United_States_Constitution
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gptkbp:proposedBy
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gptkb:62nd_United_States_Congress
May 13, 1912
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gptkbp:ratifiedBy
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gptkb:United_States
April 8, 1913
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:United_States_Senate_elections
Progressive Era reforms
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gptkbp:repealedBy
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gptkb:Article_I,_Section_3,_Clauses_1_and_2_(in_part)
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gptkbp:replacedBy
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selection of Senators by state legislatures
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gptkbp:significance
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shifted power from state legislatures to the people
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gptkbp:subject
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direct election of United States Senators
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gptkbp:textBegins
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof...
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gptkb:Progressive_Era
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5
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