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.
David Kinsey simply because they didn’t make/pass a dozen more different amendments does not mean the framers were wrong about anything in particular.
Sure…. Let’s open the door for more government corruption than we already have. What a dipshit.
Tremell Timmy Doyle you are a complete waste of a life you fool
You cannot repeal the Bill of Rights.
The framers were wrong about several things. That’s why we have amendments. That is the beauty of our Constitution. We are not bound by what the framers believed. We can change the highest law of the land through the difficult process of ratifying Constitutional amendments.
They probably don’t need to ask congress for anything. It was never lawfully ratified.
DUMB. Waste of Money!!
Amen amen amen
They repealed Prohibition without a convention of the states.
Wow!!