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.
Good luck with that. They never listen to anything except the closing of a suitcase full of money. And that’s both sides
All I remember were the 18 amendments I never paid any attention to the others that were made up. But the first 18 that were here before the rest of us should be left alone
THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THEY WERE ELECTED. MONEY GOT TO THEM AND THEY FORGOT PRINCIPALS AND BACK HOME FOLKS WHO SENT THEM THERE. THEY WILL BE RETURNING HOME SOON. ELECTION DAY IS COMING AND THE BETRAYERS WILL BE OUT.
Look At The State Of Affairs Currently In Our Country , Our Constitutional Rights Are Being Trampled Over Everyday AND WE HAVE Our Constitution , Can You Imagine IF They Start Repealing Amendments ?! IF ANYONE In This Day & Age , Think THESE Politicians WOULD STOP AT One Amendment , You’d Better Think Again . NEXT Thing You Know , They’ll Want To Repeal The RIGHT TO Bare Arms & Then Totally Repeal Our Freedom of Speech & On & On , Things ARE BAD ENOUGH RIGHT NOW WITH The Constitution . I Wouldn’t Trust Them , Leave It Alone UNTIL Someone CAN BE Trusted To Handle It , But Quite Honestly , That Day May Never Come !
TELL UTAH SENATE IT WAS THERE BEFORE HIS UGLY MUG SHUT UP
You have no right to repeal anything!
It’s funny how people seem to think the Constitution is what gives us our rights. That document does not give us rights, if the 2nd Amendment was ever repealed, we would still have the right. The Constitution was written by the people, creating the government and thereby restricting what it can do by guaranteeing our rights that come from our creator. Read the document sometime, along with the Declaration of Independence.
THESE SCUMBAGS BETTER NOT TOUCH ANY AMENDMENTS!!!! THEY ARE ALL THERE FOR A REASON!!! IF WE LET THEM CHANGE “ONE” THING IT WILL LEAD TO OTHERS!! DO NOT START THIS!!
Better idea lets repeal theUtah senate
Exactly how does repealing one amendment pave the way for repealing any of the others? It’s like the argument that if you allow gays to marry, then zoos will want to marry their animals as well. All these assumptions assume that in some unspecified future, the majority of people will become amoral or totally looney. Non sequiter; it does not follow.