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)

    “[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn’t executions be public?”
    —Phil Donahue (b. 1935)