Electing the Senate : Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment /
From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people-instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Colección: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |