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Seventeenth Amendment

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Bybee, Jay S. 1997. "Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy, Federalism, and the Sirens' Song of the Seventeenth Amendment." Northwestern University Law Review 91 (winter).

Kochan, Donald J. 2003. "State Laws and the Independent Judiciary: An Analysis of the Effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the Number of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional." Albany Law Review 66 (summer).

Rossum, Ralph A. 2001. Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.

Zywicki, Todd J. 1997. "Beyond the Shell and Husk of History: The History of the Seventeenth Amendment and its Implications for Current Reform Proposals." Cleveland State Law Review 45 (spring): 165–234.

——. 1994. "Senators and Special Interests: A Public Choice Analysis of the Seventeenth Amendment." Oregon Law Review 73 (winter).

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