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.
The 17 amendment needs to be voted out!! And Jonathan Dodge if Congress unanimously votes it out it can go!!! Its garbage anyway!!
The first step is in the congress. it then gets sent to the states. the 17th should be repealed.
Here is someone with some sense, hopefully flying on their own dime, or in the case of some of the ‘other’ persuasion, on their own brooms.
Yeah!!!!
No
I’d rather go to war
Than live in a country
Without the constitution
Congress needs to quit trying to change the constitution and the rest of it. The American people needs to kick the out of office for land grab, money laundering,and sale of America resources for there pockets.
Up untill 1912 the people did Not vote for the senate the Ledislature of every state elected the states senators. The people were tired of that because it was so corrupt. So the 17th was proposed in 1912 and Ratified by 1913..So now he wants to take our vote away by repealing the 17th.,The corruption in DC just keeps going.
OH I BET PEOPLE ARE NOT ONLY FED UP WITH THEM THEY WANT TO SET TERM LIMITS FOR THEM SO OF COURSE THEY WANT THIS$#%&!@*REMOVED SO THE PEOPLE CAN NOT KICK THEM OUT WHEN THEY DON’T REPRESENT THEM
The constitution is the law of the land and cannot be changed and if they allow it then our country is no longer free.
It can be and has been amended. That’s how we got Amendments 11-27.
So… they ADDED the 17th amendment in 1913. Which CHANGED
Back up to the 13th.
They should get no more than six years total, term limits baby