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.
STUPID MORMONS!
Nothing to do with electoral this or that, but wanting to go back over a century to when state senates were charged with choosing U.S. Senators from their state. Dumb idea; figures it would come from a renegade state such as Utah, whose Sen. Hatch fancies himself a composer of music, but can hardly be coaxed to write an email: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-email-senators-offline-dinosaurs-perspec-0318-20150317-story.html
Read the 17th amendment. Has nothing to do with the electoral college. It’s about senate term of 6 years. It needs to be limited to 1 term
Absolutely. The original design for the election of Senators was the correct one.
Agree.
I wondered that too. However, makes it a lot harder for them to cheat. So they had to create a system that works for them
U open that door ( of repealing the amendment where will it stop). Just sayinf.
yes, repeal!
We need to repeal this amendment and return to the original intent. We can control how our Senators vote much more easily under the original setup.
Yes