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.
as usual discontented blacks!
Has anyone even actually read this at all, like all the way threw? Not half$#%&!@* Or just the head line? Or comments?like seriously
Prohibition (18th) was put in there for a reason and it still is in there. Another amendment (21st) was added to repeal it. By repealing the 17th Senators would vote for what’s best for their state and not special interests. How can that be wrong?
F**k him !!
Hell no
Leave the Constitution alone
Claudette Philbrook…..your ignorance is showing……the 17th amendment was put in in 1913 by PROGRESSIVES and special interest groups with an agenda who wanted to allow our senators to be INFLUENCED by $$…..repealing it allows the PEOPLE to, once again, instruct their senators to come home every week and meet with the people and to justly represent THEM….not the special interest groups with $$. The 17th Amendment was one of those added later to our constitution by people/special interest groups (with $$) trying to manipulate and control our government and it’s people. It should NEVER have been allowed. But when the public fall asleep and disengage with what is going on politically, then the dishonest will try to slip stuff past us …which they did! The 17th Amendment needs to be taken out. And our constitution be put back to it’s original content and meaning. THIS IS GOOD. Read the article.
There is a movement to get the Electoral College people to turn away from Trump even if he won in a state. If these people switch votes it is because their families and them were threatened with death or they were bribed.
Exactly. It is backwards and most people are too uneducated to realize it. They’re successfully being conditioned by politicians, the media and unfortunately the education system to believe the government rules the people instead of people ruling the government.
So backwards and most people are too uneducated to realize it. They’re successfully being conditioned by politicians, the media and unfortunately the education system to believe the government rules the people instead of people ruling the government.