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.
About damn time; we need to restore the balance in the Constitution and repeal of the 17th Amendment is a first major step. States were designed to be sovereign nations of themselves and as such, power we distributed between federal, state and citizen powers. We have managed to permit the federal power to steal from the states and citizens and this needs to be fixed quickly or we risk a situation where the feds will dominate the people or force the people to defy them by means of arms. I pray this will never come to be and this is a good step in the right direction.
Glenn Eric Carlson Congress is both The House of Representatives and The Senate.
John H. Thomas Congress is both The House of Representatives and The Senate.
No, it would be an indirect pick through who you pick in your state. Why the house is called the people’s house.
The framers feared ‘we the people’ – the mob – who would vote themselves money and services at the expense of their neighbors. From The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Volume 6, 1851,
“Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.” And about a page later … “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide”.
Lets repeal Utah senator.
Congress can’t repeal any constitutional amendment it takes the people of every state.
Repealing the 17th amendment would be absolutely amazing. The states would get their federal representation back and reign in the federal government.
I think that would be a very backward way of doing things. Why not just ban 501(c) charity money being accessed or donated to anyone seeking election. Set an election budget that will be the maximum for all candidates that will include all donations. Then you eliminate the big money influence. Especially if you require that candidates can not have foreign investments or financial interests of any kind. Problem mostly solved without having to go through the process of trying to repeal a constitutional amendment. To be honest, I prefer to keep my state government from choosing who represents us in the senate. They have majority in both houses and the governor for 2 straight terms and they’ve still done nothing for the common people. Except raise our taxes. Why would I want them to take away my vote too?
Yeah can not change anything from the constitution everything is set in stone