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Until ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, members of the Senate were selected by __________.

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state legislatures and not by popular votes

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Until ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, members of the Senate were selected by state legislatures and not by popular votes. Senator have since then been elected to six-year terms by the people of each state.

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