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ERROR: "Senators Have Always Been Popularly Elected"

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The claim that senators have always been elected by the people is false: state legislatures originally chose them, until the Seventeenth Amendment.

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Gov 042's lookup met this exact history — the annotation flags the 1913 change.

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The original design made the Senate answer to state governments, not voters.

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