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How did the seventeenth amendment change the way senators are elected

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According to the Seventeenth Amendment, Americans were able to elect senators at the legal appropriate age. c:

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The seventeenth amendment changed the way senators are elected in that it made senators elected by direct vote of the citizens, as opposed to state legislatures as was the case during the early republic. 
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