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.
If repealed it would just return the Constitution to its original intent where the Senators are representatives of the states and not elected in a direct vote.
This would allow about 20 or 30 people to select Senators for each state. This is one of those slight-of-hand deals that will take away the vote of the people for Senators. Damn fool idea. Good for the politicians, though!! Instead of spending months and millions of dollars, all they would have to do is make a few promises, and kiss a few asses. A cheaper and more direct route to the Senate. They would have absolutely no allegience to the citizens, however.
Tremell must like living on massa’s plantation. I loves me dems table scraps massa!
Crazy stupid. We are a government of the people. We Are Not A GOVERNMENT Of State senators.
Have you listened to some these state senators. No thank you.
Yes repeal it but the Senators main job is to represent the State not the people. The people are represented by the House. The State is represented by the Senate. Thus balance.
term limits
It’s not like we’ve never repealed an Amendment before. The 21st repealed the 18th.
So the bottom line is that the Utah Senate does not want citizens choosing their own representatives in the U.S. senate. Really? That’s……disturbing.
So you want politicians at the federal level to represent politicians at the state level instead of the citizens of that state? That’s ridiculous and assinine.