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A Convention To Propose
All of the 27 ratified amendments have been proposed by a two-thirds vote in Congress, but there is another way. Congress must call a convention for proposing amendments when two-thirds of the states submit applications to Congress. To avoid the convention called for in this Louisiana application, Congress proposed direct election of senators. It became the 17th Amendment in 1913.
Joint resolution of the state legislature of Louisiana calling for a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution to propose an amendment for direct election of senators, November 25, 1907, Records of the U.S. Senate |