who proposed it?
Joseph L. Bristow
Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
When the resolution came before the Senate, a substitute resolution, one without the rider, was proposed by Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas.
under the constitution prior to the seventeenth amendment united states senators were Elected for a six-year term what is the amendment about? It is an amendment to the United States Constitution which established the popular election of United States senators in each state. what was its effect? It altered the process for electing United States senators and changed the way vacancies would be filled. who composed it ? James Wilson
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Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution [SEP] Proposal in Congress
Most of the South had one-party states. When the resolution came before the Senate, a substitute resolution, one without the rider, was proposed by Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas. It was adopted by a vote of 64 to 24, with four not voting. Nearly a year later, the House accepted the change. The conference report that would become the Seventeenth Amendment was approved by the Senate 42 to 36 on April 12, 1912, and by the House 238 to 39, with 110 not voting on May 13, 1912.