Passed by Congress May 13, 1912. Ratified April 8, 1913. Note: Article I, section 3, of the Constitution was modified by the 17th amendment. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two ...

This amendment shall not ... becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, provided for the direct election of United States senators, replacing the ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...