Stylistically, Merlot can be light, easy drinking, and fruit-driven or more complex, with big, bold tannins, dark fruits and dark spices. Site and viticultural practices play a large role in determining the flavors in the glass, as does winemaking technique.
Full text of the Constitution and Amendments. The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, Â§3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
Since then the 12 th and 17 th amendments to the US Constitution have respectively expanded the power of the voters to select both their President and their Senators, albeit one's vote for President is still an indirect one due to the Electoral College.1 In addition, several states have enacted several other measures that have increased the power of the people: the initiative, the referendum, and the recall.