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.
XVII ……State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election….Amendment looks good to me.
Agree.. Career politicians have forgotten they hold a job and their employer is WE THE PEOPLE!
Leave our Constitution alone, no changes to be done! National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).
Yes I agree
But unless thing change in Washington it will not happen
Semper Fi
Another dumb$#%&!@*N***a
Yes repeal
Sounds like something we need to do. Also, they wouldn’t need millions to campaign, therefore more “ordinary” people would get a chance to serve. Our Founding Fathers were pretty sharp. Also, we need to bring the Senators’ pay back to the states the way it was originally.
17th Amendment one of the biggest mistakes of the last century. It’s ratification, as a practical matter, sounded the death nil of the 10th & 9th. They are essentially gone now
If you understand the history you will understand how this amendment was one of the biggest shams that the federal government used to seize power from the states. The senate no longer represents the states. It represents the parties.
Well stated.