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.
Oh lord, I wish that they would!
This is interesting. Something to think about.
What a idiot
They already did…27 times in fact. They’re called amendments. What’s being suggested here is to make repeal a change the took power from the states. This should make you happy if ours a constitutionalist.
Great idea lets cut the leash on people voting for a welfare state that refuse to work, while we are at it lets toss the House out and let our county officials elect them every four years, much closer to republic our fathers established and much harder to by off, lets elect statsemen
Ernie Ney I commented before reading it sorry
Robert Adkins
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/amendments.htm
My understanding is that amendments to the US Constitution can be superceded by another amendment, not repealed by congress alone.
Suggestions:
States demand that their federal representation return to the state legislature to have both parties discuss issues. It would in essence be non-binding except that it would look very bad for them to refuse at next election time.
A Constitutional Convention could take care of this and impose congressional term limits. However it will open up the constitution to all sorts of amending.
Exactly – Regardless of how the amendment is proposed by the house and senate, it must be ratified by the States. Look at for example the 27th amendment: proposed 9/25/1789 but not ratified by the states until 5/7/1992, that’s just over 200 years before the people and the state ratified it!