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.
I don’t agree that it needs to be repealed. Just passing term limits solves the money problem.
Get ‘me Utah. While we’re at it lets tack on term limits.
Mike George
As you point out, it’s almost exclusively Republicans who eat to USE LAWFUL PROCESS to change Federal powers.
In contrast, rather than LAWFULLY AMENDING The Constitution, #yeseverydemocrat simply demands it be ignored.
Read Article V.
It explains how The Constitution may lawfully be changed. It expressly forbids Amending in such a way add to do what the 17th Amendment does, so add a matter of law, the 17th Amendment is not legitimately part of The Constitution. “Ratifying” it was an illegal act.
This should never have been passed. I do see the camels nose under the tent, though….repeal mania could begin.
A good idea. Senators were never meant to be elected.
Agree.
It takes 3/4ths of the states to ratify an amendment. That’s a high hurtle and plenty of safety.
Randall Lyons, and anyone else who wants to keep thinking this…there is a BIG difference between “stupid” and “wantonly criminal”.
Please, stop making the mistake of calling them “stupid”. They’re not stupid. They’re criminal.
They know it. We ‘should’ know it (I already do). And too many people outside our borders have known it for decades.
It’s high time we Americans wake the flock up, call a spade a spade, and arrest these wantonly treasonous criminals away, and retake our nation.
You sound just like that old fat man from Texas Randy Hodde!