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.
Great idea.
Well they repealed prohibition, the 17th was not original
Senate makes laws. Most laws are not voted on by the public. They need to remove the 17th. It is a bad amendment.
Yes he is right stop it .
To many fat scum on pay off money Dems and Rep
For the 100th time, CONGRESS DOES NOT REPEAL NOR CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION. PSI 101.
Yeah….. Let’s make our represenentatives ENEN LESS accountable. That will help! /sarcasm
Our Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom might have NEVER imagined the amount of corruption that we experience on a daily basis, as they were living during more honorable times.
WE THE PEOPLE’s CONSTITUTION is being attacked at every juncture in this moment in time, because they realize with the election of Trump, their power and corruption will be exposed and finished. Therefore, they are changing laws to subvert and enslave WE THE PEOPLE as we were before the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the fight for OUR INDEPENDENCE!!
The politicians of 1913 realized how this could be dangerous as it takes the power away from WE THE PEOPLE and amended the Constitution to insure we had a voice against money, power, and corruption. Why would they want to repeal it unless they are protecting their own and bringing about a globalist community?
Ok. Here are a few thoughts.
1) Discontinue all Congressional pay and benefits. More than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Why do we need to pay them? The idea is to serve their constituents, not become extremely wealthy at the constituent’s expense.
2) Cancel Congressional retirement pay. Again, most are already millionaires. They don’t need a retirement.
3) Enforce Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution. Accepting money from “special interest” groups in exchange for favorable legislation to that group constitutes bribery. Any Congressman accepting such money should be removed from office immediately (not waiting until his term expires), tried, and, if found guilty, sentenced to prison.
WE, THE PEOPLE, are the masters of our government. The GOVERNMENT serves us. We do NOT serve the government.
WE, THE PEOPLE, have the authority, responsibility, and duty to make changes to our government BY WHAT METHOD WE DEEM NECESSARY! It was given to us by the very ones who fought to create our nation to begin with.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.” – Declaration of Independence
And Thomas Jefferson also wrote:
“The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” – Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
I agree, that way the Senate would better represent the people. Right now they only represent the large cities.