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.
Seems the US Constitution is the latest target of all anarchists, communists, and liberals. Seems they think that anything they don’t agree with doesn’t automatically belong in the Constitution, and its their duty to protect all of us from their view of our own stupidity.
Hmmm… so are you calling those who made the original change in 1913 the anarchists? or the people who want to follow the original plan? You can’t have it both ways.
Another black politician trying to change the white man constitution.
The white man law is better then the black/ muslim law.
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The States, who formed the Union, were provided a say in how said Union was to be governed by the selection of the Senators. The 17th Amendment removed the State government’s from that process. This was done at the same time as the institution of the Federal Reserve bank and the income tax.
It helped to make it less of a “federalist” system. The States were meant by the founders to have some control over the Federal Government, not mere sub-divisions and vassals of the Federal Government. The 17th Amendment stripped away some of that control.
The non-enforcement of the 10th Amendment since the Civil War has much of the rest.
Robert Walter is correct!
Absolutely without a doubt it needs to be repealed!
Amend it to one senator and one congressman from each state. With a direct line to all the States govt they should be able to get just as much bribe money from the lobbyists.
Leave the Constitution alone.
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.