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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They also intended for only land owning white men to vote and thought it was okay to own people so maybe they weren’t right about everything.
I agree with this. The House of Representatives is meant to do the will of the people, and the Senate is meant to represent the will of each of the states.
The difference Lisa is that the 17th was illegally passed in the first place.
In order for an amendment to happen it must be passed by 2/3rds of the states. Say what ever slippery slope argument you want about repealing the 2nd amendment the southern and Midwestern states would never approve it. Repealing an amendment is not without precedent; see prohibition. I also think this is a great idea.
Having Senators elected by state legislatures protects the States, but from whom? From the residents of that state?
There is some logic to that in a much more mobile country. New residents move into a state when the state is doing well and has lots of jobs. Residents move away when a state is doing poorly. All in all, states rights don’t mean as much to people that will live in several states over their lifetimes (5 for me).
For that same reason, don’t count on getting an amendment passed. Even temporary residents have opinions about who should represent them and they (or we, since I’ve lived in 5 states) aren’t likely to give that up for some idea of states’ rights when explaining the difference between a state and the state’s residents is going to be a bit problematic in today’s political climate. Just ask the Democratic Party how well the idea of superdelegates to protect the nomination from being spoiled by voters is working for them.
So….now we want politicians to name Senators and NOT the PEOPLE???
What???
Where does it say white land owners? It said land owners.
So you want to go back to the state legislatures electing the Senator instead of the people? Hmmm, something smells here.
Good luck