Prior to the 17th amendment how did some senatoriall candidates attempt to get elected into office

Prior to the 17th Amendment, Senators were elected by state legislatures. This changed dramatically with the 17th Amendment, which transferred this right to the residents of the state.

After thorough research, that question has the same one with the following choices.

(A) They thought senators could work from their states.

(B) They decided that one senator was enough.

(C) They could not find two deserving senators.

(D) They could not decide who to elect.

So the correct answer is (A) They thought senators could work from their states.

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United Democratic Front (UDF). Congress of South African Trade Unions.

The UDF was an umbrella organization that had a "federal structure" and a decentralized method of employing tactics. By 1986, there were 700 different organizations working under the umbrella which were often youth movements, community organizations, unions, professional societies and churches. Eventually there would be nearly "1,000 affiliated groups." UDF embraced a philosophy of "African nationalism, socialism and Christianity." The common goal of ending apartheid and systematic racism in all.

Cosatu: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it brought together many of the unions formed after the wave of strikes at the beginning of 1973 to end it.