[9급 지방직 영어 2014년 17번]

Unlike in the House of Representatives, representation in the Senate is equal for every state: each state has two senators. Senators serve six-year terms. The purpose of the guaranteed term is to insulate senators from public opinion and allow them to act independently. In regard to the selection, public servants in the Senate used to be _______________ by the legislatures of the states they represented. It was the Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, that gave Americans the power to elect their own senators directly.