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.
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The amendment forbidding alcohol has been repealed. The 17th amendment took away from states rights, undermining the 10th amendment.
This is intended to change the constitution to the way it was when the founders framed it.
17th skewed checks and balances intent of the founding fathers.
^ trump donated to both parties and you’ll need to link something on organized crime and sex parties because I don’t remember hearing anything about either of those.
That ammendment was put in place by “progresives” that knew that money dumped into senatorial campaignes would fall the way they wanted them to.
I completely agree with repealing the 17th Amendment. It altered the constitutional concept of the state governments having a say in federal government policy.
The only way this will ever happen is through an article 5 convention of the States , Go to cosaction.com and sign the petition.
This needs to happen. The states need to regain their representation. The 17th amendment was harmful to the Constitution.
You mean the House of Representatives was the voice of the people. Congress consists of both the House and the Senate.