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.
Jeff Young who is making that claim? They want to return it to the way it was intended. It removed power from the individual states. The people would still be represented. …. in the house like it was designed. Smh.
Ever wonder how states like Florida whose legislatures are overwhelmingly Republican still vote for bad dem candidates for president, or how you get a dem senator in a place like Louisiana? What you’re seeing is that manufacturing votes cannot buy a state house. In other words, dems can manufacture all the votes they want in places like Dade County or Philly, and the GOP will still win its own territories, it’s only in a national or statewide race that vote manufacturing can decide a race for a public office.
That says that the very first thing we need to do is rescind the 17’th amendment and return the election of US senators to the state houses. The state houses are the most accountable unit of American government; at present, the presidency and the US senate are least accountable.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3426438/posts?page=25#25
An attempt to remove States Rights, because they don’t like being told No.
I don’t understand this one and never have. Why would we want to take the vote for Senators away from individuals and give it over to government? Since when do we want government appointing government? Can someone explain this in a non condescending way?
I’m neither for nor against. I don’t think repealing the 17th Amendment will achieve what people will think it will achieve.
So, where the hell are our militias #1? And #2, I thought our military was supposed to defend our constitution, and from scumbag politicians that want to change it. Quite frankly, any POS politician wanting to change one word in our constitution should be charged with treason, dragged behind a courthouse, and shot in the face.
I think it will only serve to perpetuate the dysfunction we see in Congress by taking the electoral power further away from the people and giving it to other politicians who then reap the benefits of lobbyists at the State level.
The 17th needs to stay and it needs to do so cause we don’t need the give them permission to repeal anything from the constitution. They would ask for more money for expences and would have an excuse to work less then they already do now. Nothing these people do is in out best intrest. It is only to help themselves in some way.
Alfred Aquino I was thinking more along the lines of the fact that people like to find alleged silver bullets. If you spend time around people who are obsessed with repealing the 17th, you get the sense that oh, if only it were repealed, we will be magically transported back to a time when governance was wonderful and all Senators were statesmen. I’m not sold either way. But the point in lobbyists is all too true, because people keep thinking of more and more things for government to get involved in.