Each state of the United States selects two senators to represent their states in the United States Senate. In 1913, the 17th Amendment[?] to the United States Constitution provided for the direct popular election of senators; prior to this, senators were selected by state legislatures.
... as
to a mother. She should be invoked. He also
gives prayers to Mary (cf. the De tabernaculis, and
Hortus rosarum, Pohl's ed., ut inf., i. also iii. 357,
vi. 219, 235 ...