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.
So you think the state senators are more honest than they voting public? Ever hear of gerrymandering?
16th as well
Ryan and McConnell can not be trusted.
If you want to get money out of politics, give them nothing to buy. Repeal the 17th. The builders of the country knew what they were doing. Let’s put it back to the way they designed it.
One of the biggest mistakes ever! The house represents the people. The Senate was put in place to represent the states!!
LEAVE THE CONSTITUTION ALONE !!!!!!!
Here we go !take the power away from the people .don’t let the people vote for the senator that they want !let the legislators pick, the legislators the ones that are bought by big business, and elitist!
???, why not a firm ruling that NO one seeking to be elected will be allowed to fund certain groups, or donate money to seek being elected.
This isn’t a solution. The correct answer is to make corporate campaign contributions illegal and start putting people in prison for giving special benefits to those that contribute to them. The money is the reason for the corruption…not who they get elected by.
So he could escape the wrath of the voters and be taken care of by the “Old Buddy” system, perhaps?