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.
you don’t like term limits for the President?
Why repeal the 17th ? Looks like a fair and orderly format.
Hell the federal government would just as soon throw the whole thing in the fire.
Can the state legislature be trusted though?
Think should be around for one more turn
Lol….OBAMA
The Kommies are using the Communist Manifesto and Saul Alinsky to usurp the Constitution. Has been officially happening since 1877.
I am in TOTAL agreement here!! Put things back to how the Founders had it!! They had Good Reason when they wrote it!! Take the Money out of it!!!
How about we just put term limits on Congress.
Good idea Anonymous. Every colony had term limits. And the Framers thought that idea was simply understood..
term limits at the Federal level would have the same basic result. Prevent the buildup of relations with lobbiest etc. that lead to problemsand possible greed. The colonies/states all had term limits; and the Framers never believed there would be lifetime politicians. They thought each generation (around 19 years or so) new blood would automatically come into the federal goverment.This idea is the same bc it requires people to come back and find out what there “locality” wants. Of course, they have to vote for that – not their own self interests.