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.
And the 16th…
Foret Gabriel…I thought this post was talking about the 17th
Definitely there should not be bought and paid for …whatsoever. ..they didn’t put 17 A….so yes…I agree
Even though I agree with their reasoning, it would set a dangerous precedent for them to do so. Repealing any Amendment to the Constitution is dangerous. We have leaders in government now that would like to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Repealing any Amendment would give them a door to walk thru to do so.
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after the 17th we had explosive growth of government there are good reasons to do this remove money from the senate making funding popular campings obslete and have more informed selection body and the state would have pull over those senators that threatended their domains.
Like I said, I agree with their reasoning. But I’m wondering if you would be willing to repeal others as well that some may not agree with. Where do you draw the line? It’s a slippery slope to be on and a dangerous one.
No
Absolutely not!! I have no interest in senators being appointed by the state legislature