Seventeenth Amendment

Examples of Seventeenth Amendment in the following topics:

• Features of Progressivism

  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people, instead of by state legislatures.
  • In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and a small income tax imposed on high incomes.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.

• Conclusion: The Development of the Constitution

  • Thus, to avoid giving the people too much direct power, the delegates ensured that senators were chosen by the state legislatures, not elected directly by the people (direct elections of senators came with the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1913).

• Democracy

  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people (instead of by state legislatures).

• Elements of Reform

  • Significant changes enacted at the national levels included the imposition of an income tax with the Sixteenth Amendment, direct election of Senators with the Seventeenth Amendment, Prohibition with the Eighteenth Amendment, and women's suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people (instead of state legislatures).
  • It achieved national success with the passage of the 18th Amendment by Congress in late 1917, and the ratification by three-fourths of the states in 1919.
  • In late 1917, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment; it was ratified in 1919 and took effect in January 1920.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1930, with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment, thanks to a well organized repeal campaign led by Catholics (who stressed personal liberty) and businessmen (who stressed the lost tax revenue).

• The Reconstruction Amendments

  • The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868, was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

• Educational Reforms

  • Prior to the first and second Industrial Revolutions, education opportunities in the 13 colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries varied considerably depending on one's location, race, gender, and social class.
  • Starting from about 1876, 39 states (out of 50) passed a constitutional amendment to their state constitutions called the "Blaine Amendments" forbidding tax money to be used to fund parochial schools.

• Anti-Slavery Resistance Movements

  • Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
  • Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

• The Bill of Rights

  • They were adopted by the House of Representatives, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791.
  • First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition.
  • Second Amendment: establishes the right of the state to having militia and the right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
  • Eighth Amendment: prohibits of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
  • Ninth Amendment: protects the rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

• The Bill of Rights

  • One of the remaining two was adopted as the 27th Amendment and the other technically remains pending before the states.
  • First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition
  • Fifth Amendment: guarantees due process, prohibits legal double jeopardy, protects against self-incrimination, establishes eminent domain
  • Sixth Amendment: guarantees trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel
  • Ninth Amendment: protects the rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • It was not until the early seventeenth century that jurist Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta to apply not only to the protection of nobles but to all subjects of the crown equally .
  • In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, several precedents from Magna Carta appeared in British legal documents and writings as fundamental rights of Englishmen.
  • In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the high intellectual Enlightenment was dominated by philosophes who opposed the absolute rule of the monarchs of their day, and instead emphasized the equality of all individuals and the idea that governments derived their existence from the consent of the governed.