Turner's main argument in "the significance of the frontier in american
history" was that the frontier was significant:

He seventeenth amendment to the us constitution calls for the direct election of all us senators. this means that the people of each state get to vote to decide who will be their two us senators. before this, the legislatures of each state chose the two us senators from that state with no direct involvement of the average voter. why would this amendment be considered a reform? how would it benefit the people? even today some people claim that the seventeenth amendment was a bad idea. what arguments could be made for reverting selection of us senators back to the state legislatures?

Later in the federalist, no. 84, hamilton says, “here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations.” hamilton believed that the new constitution would

What states were considered part of the antebellum south?