Seventeenth Amendment

The Seventeenth Amendment may refer to the:

  • Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, relating to cabinet confidentiality
  • Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, granting more power to the President of Pakistan
  • Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, providing for the direct election of Senators

Famous quotes containing the words seventeenth and/or amendment:

    “It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: “youth” is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
    —Philippe Ariés (20th century)

    “The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1934)