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.
Idk. The ‘new’ method allowed the people to elect them, special intrests aside. I am not comfortable with a few individuals electing a few more individuals and having power over the country. How do the people have ‘power’ or ability to change when it is taken out of their hands? Suggestions?
No they just want some of that special interest money too…
Opening the constitution to meddle in would undoubtedly lead to the nuts of both sides of the political spectrum to try and screw with our free speech and firearms rights. To name the two most important freedoms.
THERE WILL BE NO REPEAL OF ANY AMMENDMENTS.. THE CONSTITUTION STAYS LIKE IT IS, AND THOSE THAT DO NOT RESPECT IT NEED TO LEAVE THIS GREAT COUNTRY….
The 17th power grab is working exactly as NY Senator Aldrich and president wilson wanted it.
To strip power from the states and give more voting power to the federal gov under the guise of ending corruption or political corruption?
Now what do we have today? Complete and unabashed political corruption cause the federal government now has two voices to vote against the states best interest.
Great place to start!
The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
The amendment was proposed in the 62nd Congress in 1912 and became law in 1913 after being ratified by the required 36 state legislatures. It was implemented in special elections in Maryland (November 1913) and Alabama (May 1914) and then nationwide in the November 1914 election.
How about overturning Citizens United and outlawing gerrymandering ? Get as close to 1 person 1 vote as possible. Despite what the GOP says, returning to the 19th century won’t solve our problems. Those were not America’s best times.
17th Amendment
Amendment XVII
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Congress, the president, and the supreme court all have a problem listening to the people and doing their constitutional duty. Help us change that. http://www.cosaction.com/?recruiter_id=1056585