The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment

by C. Hoebeke

Book Overview

Before the Seventeenth Amendment, US senators were elected by state legislatures. To end the supposed corruption of state "machines" and make the Senate more responsive to the legislative needs of the industrial era, the Senate was made a popularly elected body in 1913. Meanwhile, the spread of information and communications technology, it was argued, had rendered indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However, C. H. Hoebeke...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412854806
• ISBN13: 9781412854801
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"