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.
That’s the way it was supposed to be and i agree
So Utah businessmen want to be able to buy their Senator’s vote with much smaller donations at the State level, rather than have to compete with all that nasty outside money?
In the beginning senate was to represent the states, the House was to represent the people! It should have never changed!
Well said
these idiots must be democrats, for they are completely out of their minds.
The irony is that a democratic is worried about redistricting because the Democrats here in Commifornia have been guilty of gerrymandering for year’s
They have a great point, but what is the alternative? Should we abolish the senate? Or make the number of senators representative of the population – where we’d end up with two Houses of Representatives. I’m not opposed to either, actually. The idea that small-time senators can have big-time influence does make them more vulnerable to “donations” / legalized bribery from special interests.
It’s the right thing to do. Repeal..
It takes a majority (3/4) of the states to make changes to the Constitution.
Yes, but it’s a start.