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.
They don’t appoint each other. The states senators would appoint two senators to serve as U.S. senators.
As opposed to what they send now?
Unfortunately it wouldn’t help California, the land of fruits and nuts…
but just think with what we have in Sacramento now we would be sending$#%&!@*brains like DeLeon et al.
Don’t start this utah.
Martin Hernandez thanks, that makes more sense, but still sounds worse than electing them.
That’s a slippery slope…if the founders didn’t want that, then they obviously didn’t want ANY amendments…including the first or the second.
It was the original way and it ensured states rights. That’s why Rhode Island has the same number of senators as California. It was set up for the states to advise and consent.
Checks and balances.
Congress can’t do that.