1910, 27 state legislatures had been pushed to petition Congress for a constitutional amendment. Two years later, the Senate finally gave in, and in 1913 the 17th Amendment be- came law after it was ratified three-fourths of the states. A 28th Amendment, the authors say, could be only a few years away.

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'Dwarfing the Political Capacity of the People? The Relationship Between Judicial Activism & Voter Turnout, 1840-1988" by Philip A. Klinkner, in Polity (Summer 1993), Thompson H...