the seventeenth amendment allowed citizens to elect senators to congress.
the seventeenth amendment allowed citizens to elect senators to congress.
which amendment allowed citizens to elect senators to congress?
the seventeenth amendment
borah also had a hand in the other constitutional amendment to be ratified in 1913, the seventeenth amendment, providing for the direct election of senators by the people. in 1909, due to borah's influence, the idaho legislature passed an act for a statewide election for us senators, with legislators in theory bound to choose the winner. by 1912 over 30 states had similar laws. borah promoted the amendment in the senate in 1911 and 1912 until it passed congress and, after a year, it was ratified by the states. with the power to elect senators having passed to the people, according to mckenna, the popular borah "secured for himself a life option on a seat in the senate".
william borah
the 1970 amendments, also known as the clean air act, completely rewrote the 1967 act. in particular, the 1970 amendments required the newly created the united states environmental protection agency to set technology-based national ambient air quality standards for major new stationary sources and state air quality management programs to protect public health and welfare. in addition, the 1970 amendments required various states to submit state implementation plans for attaining and maintaining the national ambient air quality standards and required the use of air monitoring to determine if implementation plans were successful. national technology-forcing emissions standards were also set for new automobiles. this amendment allowed citizens the ability to sue polluters or government agencies for failure to abide by the act. finally, the amendment required that by 1975, the entire united states would attain clean air status.
air pollution control act