Reading Room Document

Whether a State May Elect Its United States Senators From Single-Member Districts Rather Than At-Large

Under the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, a State may not constitutionally elect its United States Senators from two single-member districts rather than at large. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20541/download.

August 20, 1992