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 17th admendment was a horrible admendment. It just took more control from the states.
This needs to happen
The 17 amendment was added so the Government would not be able to choose who represents the people. If the Government can pick and choose who can represent us then we are now Communist. In a Communist nation the government decides what is best for the people. They have no voice. They are trying little by little until we have no voice at all. Then we would be perfect little servants to the ones who choose what and who we are. Take away a persons right to choose and to speak and they are not people anymore.
Wtf
It should have term limits. For everyone in publoc office, even scotus.
And i do believe scotus should be on the ballot. Not apointed by a sitting administration.
Ahhh No!
Blake instead of posting something like that why don’t you argue your point of view and explain why you think Tom is wrong. That’s what a grown man would do
Its just another uneducated n****r
This is just a government trying to cherry pick a weak Amendment in order to figure out a way to get to other Amendments. We all know that elections are corrupt all the way to the Presidency. Hillary Clinton is trying to purchase the White House right now using money funneled to her right now. Where in the world would Hillary Clinton get 264 Million dollars so far from? She is basically buying her way into the White House. Barack Obama’s seat in the Illinois Senate was up for sale until dude got busted.