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:

    “The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the seventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne’s observation, “I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow.””
    —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)