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.
A good move in the right direction. Gives the states back some power over the feds. Nullification is working, but slowly, this would help speed up the process of taking back our country from the corporations.
Yes. Repeal this amendment and have Senators represent their states as the founding fathers wanted.
The bill of rights is the most important of them. Let us not forget what AMENDMENTS are in the first place. That is changes to the constitution. Most of them are terrific improvements. This one is debatable. It prevents deadlocks and originally intended to prevent corruption but fir some reason seems to let the dog off the chain AND out of the yard, making senators less accountable to the desire of their states. Seems like kind of of a pro-federal government, states’ rights reducing one. I haven’t figured out why by reading the amendment though. The unlimited number of six year terms? Don’t like it. Apparently it used to be two.
The bill of rights is the most important of them. Let us not forget what AMENDMENTS are in the first place. That is, changes to the constitution. Most of them are terrific improvements but this one is debatable. It prevents deadlocks (which is something Utah had some problems with early on but for the last decade or so preceding the 17th amendment they did not) and originally intended to prevent corruption (largely unfounded) but for some reason seems to let the dog off the chain AND out of the yard, making senators less accountable to the desires of their states. Seems like kind of of a pro-federal government, states’ rights reducing amendment. I haven’t figured out why by reading the amendment though. The unlimited number of six year terms? Don’t like it. Apparently it used to be two.
Kiss r asss
That would do a great deal to fix crony socialism making popular campaigns for senate and funding them obslete. We would have a more informed body choosing and then states could protect their power and role in making our own decissions.
Get rid of electoral college and appointed officials if the government can’t go by what we the people say they should be removed from office they serve us we do not serve them and it’s time to make them remember that
One of the most short sighted of the progressive era amendments. it should go.
Same year we got the Federal Reserve and the income tax
Ban Congress