The Senate of the United States shall ... that voted to ratify the Seventeenth Amendment, the vote was unanimous, and in all thirty-six of the ratifying states the total number of votes cast ...
This amendment shall not ... becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, provided for the direct election of United States senators, replacing the ...
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. We have 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. Each is part of the Constitution. The last amendment to be ratified is the 27th Amendment.