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.
You have a say through your locally elected state representative. This makes the senators more accountable to the state in which they are supposed to represent.
this dude is retarded
give me a break who does he think he his if you don’t like it i’ll help you move.
MISS WITH OUR LAWS YOU NEED TO BE REMOVE FORM OFFICE THAT DAY
The people need to vote, not their representatives at the state level.
A very good idea!
If they get to change one of these amendments then they will try to start changing Our Constitution to suit their own agendas’
Senators an Congressmen should have salaries from their states, not the Federal Government. That would end a lot of the BS where their allegiance lies.
Yes please use Article V of the Constitution to make this much needed change
These Liberals will not stop until they totally destroy this country.