The Utah Senate asked Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment, which was ratified under the Progressive’s of 1913. Utah has boldly challenged a system that was never the intent of the Founding Fathers and suggests that the 17th Amendment has resulted in Senators being bound to special interest groups, that donate enormous sums of money for the Senator’s re-election, and not representing the needs of the people of Utah.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Al Jackson of Utah, believes that Senators need to “come home every weekend and take direction from their state legislative (sic) body and from the House and the Governor on how they should vote in the upcoming week.”
Passing with 20-6 SJR2 was sent to the House. It demands that Congress repeal the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Read a history of the 17th Amendment and why Utah has made such a bold call to action on the following page.
Congress can’t repeal any thing about the Constitution. Learn your facts if postings are your forte.
The 17th amendment changed the election of US Senators by the separate state legislatures to election by popular vote. Under the Constitution of the USA before the 17th Amendment the state legislature could recall their Senator at any time; the Senator was accountable to the state legislature not a lobby group in DC. Today, neither Senators or members of the House are accountable to the people, they are accountable to special interest groups and lobby groups.
You know what is wrong with this country? Warning labels. Back before there were warning labels on every little thing stupidity had consequences. If you were as stupid as this fool you just didn’t live to grow up and reproduce.
Yes!
How about WE THE REAL PEOPLE repeal your$#%&!@*& send you back to kenya or wherever the hell your slave owning ancestors lived !
I agree and take 16, with it
Take the vote out of the hands of citizens and put it in the hands of career politicians ???? LMFAO Now thats some dumb$#%&!@*!!!
YES! THIS! Bring back federal accountability to the state legislature. Our senators represent the state. We have representatives in the people’s house. We need our federal senators to fear the state legislators we elect.
I agree. Lobbyist would be easier to control!
the 17th made the Senate nothing more than a “super house” of representatives. Imagine, will you, if the orginal intent was followed. How many conservative senators would there be? 31 state legislatures are republican controlled….