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.
YES, DO IT
For those saying “don’t mess with the Constitution”, well the Constitution was already messed with!
The founding fathers were all about checks and balances. The House of Representatives was to be the common shop owner, merchant, craftsperson, etc. They were supposed to be average hard working citizens who sacrificed a couple years to serve the interests of their grassroots communities. Likewise, the most important duties of printing money, setting interest rates, collecting taxes and negotiating foreign trade are all the Constitutional DUTY of elected House Reps. On the other hand, Senators were supposed to be most highly educated, cultured and dignified. They were mostly aristocrats appointed by each individual State’s own elected Representatives. This was a wise check and balance between elites and commoners. It was intentional!
Now, we have professional politicians in BOTH Congressional Houses. Senators are now uneducated, unsophisticated idiots and sycophants to Corporations and their lobby groups. House Reps are now also soulless lifetime charlatans looking at House of Reps as only a stepping stone to promote their ambitions to become more prestigious Senators.
In the end, the well intentioned populist movement actually took away power from the people by making Senators to be elected by popular vote.
This is the way they will start repealing our constitution to start with 17 Admendent and then the 1st freedom of speech and then the 2nd Amendment, the right to bare arms. Nothing in the constitution should be repeal.
It’s the only way for the people and the states to take control back over federal government.
Tom Butler you do vote for your state representative in the house. That person votes for the federal senators. The only lobbyist the federal senators listen to is your states congressmen.
Put the power of the people back where it belongs. Repealing 17thadmendment is the only way.
Have gun will ride
About time!!!!
The Senate was supposed to protect the State’s Rights against the predictable and inevitable encroachments by the Federal Government in spite of the Tenth Amendment. Once we changed the Senate to being a second House of Representatives, the Tenth Amendment didn’t take long to fall. DC now has their hand in everything and the Several States are mostly powerless, which was never the intent for this nation.
I believe Sen. Al Jackson has it figured out. For years I thought that I was the only one.
Well, the evidence might suggest we’re not…