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.
Ain’t gonna happen.
You are right. The last sentence in Article 5 says that no state may be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. That means that there must have been a unanimous vote sometime/place by all the states to give up their representation. ????? That really just doesn’t sound plausible.
It couldn’t have been done by an amendment.
Only if the vote was unanimous, it wasn’t.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd656.htm
Can we please not mess with the Constitution?
Dennis Jasper lol you have no proof nine investigations and gowdys own lawyer said it failed sorry
Dennis Jasper you mean before boy gearge signed the spy bill after nine 9/11 hmm any one cay you’re a terrorist
Restores states rights by decentralizing an easily corrupted national government.
Foolish knee jerk comment. Repeal the 1st and 2nd Amendments, how ludicrous! The 17th Amendment has taken away the original intent of the Founding Fathers that state legislatures select the US Senators.
The 17th Amendment turned the selection of US Senators into a popularity contest. From that point on, pork barrel politics took over. The more taxpayer money that you brought back to your home state, the more likely you were to be re-elected.
The spigots were wide open.