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The Senate we killed in 1913
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An opinion piece argues that the 17th Amendment (1913), which changed Senate elections from state legislature selection to direct popular vote, enabled federal government expansion by removing an institutional check on federal power that state legislatures previously provided.
The Senate we killed in 1913
The 17th Amendment didn't start the federal expansion of the past century, but it cleared the institutional space that made it possible.
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