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.
Do you trust they system as it is?
Robert’s Rules of Order!
Could not agree more. Senators were meant to represent States interests.
Utah is so strange.
The process for amending (changing) the Constitution is well recognized and somewhat complex. It can not be done by an act of Congress alone. Just as the President cannot dictate which bathroom you can or cannot use by mandate. Our leadership is out of control and taking us down a slippery slope.
Ronald Greene exactly, it would be at least 60+ Republican Senators. How do we disagree?
Elliott Baker of course we have a stupid$#%&!@*Confederate apologist. Who is now going to make excuses for the insurrection to preserve slavery by the South
Kris Ryder the States can do it without Congress or the President
Senator were not appointed , they were elected by the state legislatures to represent the state. The House is elected by the people of each state to represent the people the 17 th amendment was a political move to further the move to mob rule called democracy which is not what the Constitution established to prevent .
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Two terms in the Senate and you’re out… term limits… that will start to dissolve corruption…