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.
why
The 16th (income tax) and the 17th (direct election of senators) was the beginning of the end of the Republic. One amendment, prohibition (18th) was repealed… bu the 21st. So precedent is in order.
The 17th amendment was the turning point taking our country from a Republic and making it a oligarchy under the disguise of a Democracy.
Agreed
While they are at it repeal the 16th as well.
Most likely the only way to get there would be through Article V Convention of the States
Wealth through corruption
Congress cant repeal an amendment. Read article 5, congress can only call for a convention. Only the States may ratify an amendment. With that said the 17th would be a good one to repeal.
For those that have no idea how the process of amending the constitution works, it only takes 13 States to block any amendment and 38 to ratify one. So in order for the liberals to change the 2nd amendment they would have to get 38 States to agree to it and that wont happen. Wont even be close
It would require 2/3 of the State’s legistlatures to do so, no?