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)
“Every family should extend First Amendment rights to all its members, but this freedom is particularly essential for our kids. Children must be able to say what they think, openly express their feelings, and ask for what they want and need if they are ever able to develop an integrated sense of self. They must be able to think their own thoughts, even if they differ from ours. They need to have the opportunity to ask us questions when they don’t understand what we mean.”
—Stephanie Martson (20th century)