The progressive era of constitutional amendment
In this Essay I explore the impetus for the Seventeenth Amendment, which was in large measure driven by an effort to curb corruption in senatorial elections. I begin by exploring the difficulty of formal amendment in the United States. I explain the rules of formal amendment and I review briefly the...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5380/rinc.v2i3.44528 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Oai: | oai:revistas.ufpr.br:article/44528 |