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.
Look another corrupt politician.
Just so you understand, that is the way things were before the 17th amendment passed and the true form of how our founders balanced the power structure in this country.
It would be great if we repealed the 22nd!!!
It started long before Bush. Wilson rewrote the Bill of Rights and the courts whittled away at the constitution. Obama has pretty much ignored the constitution.
It isn’t up to Congress to repeal ANYTHING in the Constitution. It takes the people and a nation to change the Constitution.
Kelly Jordan no they do not and I think it is so the electorate stays ignorant.
Yes! !!!
What are you talking about?
Repealing the 17th A would restore the Constitution as it was intended… They corrupted it by passing it… senators are bought and paid for through the election process… (I’ll fund your campaign, IF you tend to my special interests…)With no accountability process outside of waiting for another election to vote them out… The original had them answering to “the state” and the representatives that make up the state…
The 17th amendment wasn’t how the founders intended the government to be… it was passed by progressives (communists), and has been a corruption ever since…
Before it, senators were held accountable to the states that they represented, and the representatives that selected them… the representatives selected them, and would replace them if needs be… They were accountability measures…
After it, senators have no accountability measures outside of waiting six years for the next election… and they owe their allegiance to the ones who funded their campaigns…