People often elect representatives for government positions. Direct election of senators was instituted with the the 17th amendment.
The Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was said to be ratified, and the senators were also said to be elected by state legislatures. Where all U.S. senators were chosen by direct popular election in 1914.
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