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.
Anyone wanting to change our constitution or Bill of rights is way off base and needs to leave office the sooner the better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There would be 70 Republican Senators if 17 was repealed.
John Kemp it was changed in 1912. Why not now?
Prohibition was repealed. It can be done.
You elect your State legislature, they pick Senators.
While they’re at it, get rid of the 16th as well. It was never ratified to begin with.
thanks for the education. makes sense now.
Regina Steadman Utah is a republican state and AL jackson is also a republican. So tell me how you’ve come to the conclusion that progressive/liberal/dems are at all involved in this?
I support Utah in this effort.
And I’ll add to that Jeff and say that we are much closer and thus should have more control over our state governments. And it would provide for someone who protects the interest of the state as a whole. The only thing the 17th amendment guaranteed is that the population centers of a state dictate the interests of the state. Look at New York.