The main effect of the passage of the 17th amendment was each state now had three senators instead of two state legislators selected the senators for each state empowering voters by enabling them to directly elect senators the total number of senators was now based on population

the section of the chart that represents a point at which a bill needs approval from a majority of people in both chambers to advance is j, as this is the only section before the bill becomes law which has both rows (symbolizing the chambers) converging into one, meaning that the two parts of the congress have to approve of it before it can march on with the process.