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.
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No,no,no
news is so old… time to unfollow this page
No political office should be bought and paid for by lobbyists or special interest groups. Period.
No if you take the 17 th amendment you’ll go after the other amendments
Your reps are supposed to be in thehouse, the senate was meant to be the states seat at the federal table…the 17th Amendment was in my view a giant mistake!
16th and 17 th amendments were ad ons in the early 20th century..power to tax income.. 17th took away the appointing of senators by the state government, both giant mistakes!!
It’s cool. The courts and president often tries to confuse the citizens of this. Without it ….. He would be the King.
This situation is being handled another way. Support the Convention of States Project.
The powerful people changed the 17 amendment, they were supposed to be sent by the state government to do the States work.study your history before you open your mouth…..