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.
Yes they did. They set it up this way for a reason. That’s why the house does not vote on treaty’s or judges. But all tax bills come from the house.
Repealing the 17th addment will put us back on the right path.
Freedom of speach.
Well then maybe the people of American need to stand up and fight the$#%&!@*back instead of being a bunch of whiney pussies. There was a war in 1775 and that seemed to work out pretty damn well for at least 200 years. Maybe history needs to repeat itself…
As the Constitution was written, senators were meant to represent their state. The Senate is supposed to be the “States” house. The people are already represented by the House of “Representatives”. The 17th Amendment took away one of the checks and balances that the framers of our Constitution put in place. Right now with the 17th Amendment in place, all the Senate is is a country club.
You are already represented by your representative in the House of Representatives, the Senate was supposed to represent the “States” interests. As it is now, we have two redudent houses.
smart bunch of folks
Seems like a good idea.
Truth! Bring back the Republic!!
Jeff Blunck Fairtax.org