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.
... character, Anna, is the wife of the bureaucrat Karenin. She is invited from her home in St Petersburg to Moscow to mediate the marital discord of her brother Stepan ...