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.
out of your fucking mind you jackass!
Socialism? This has absolutely NOTHING TO DO with socializm! Your one of the many that has listened to far to much demonizing from your own crooked puppet politicians! Next you will say it’s like communism too! Lolol
17 was never a good thing, it was passed by crooked politicians to help them stay in office!
The 16th and 17th amendments were written and passed by progressives (communists/socialist/DemoKKKrats/liberals) and it’s no doubt that it has been nothing but corruption since…
It’s unconstitutional to directly tax the people without apportionment, and it’s never a good idea when money and lobbyists get involved in government…
16th and 17th amendments were progressive(communist) ideas…
But it is abundantly clear that elected officials don’t have it right at this point either. I’ll trust the people in my state over the idiots in Washington.#wethepeople.
leave the amendments alone
You don’t understand that the 17th amendment took power away from the people by taking the power from the states to hold senators accountable…
What you’re saying is there’s one piece of the pie left and they shouldn’t put the spoon down until the pie fills itself and become whole again…
They need to put the spoon down and step away from the pie!
16th and 17th amendments were pushed in by progressives(communists)… go figure…
You don’t understand the power shift that the 17th amendment would give back to the states and away from the federal government then, do you?