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Hell, no ! It was an abject failure when it was tried the last time. I don’t want crooked state legislators choosing their equally crooked pals to go to DC to loot what’s left of the country. We’d never get a Conservative Senator again.
"In a bit of unusual news, the Utah Senate voted 20-6 to ask Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment of the Constitution."
This is a very strange statement.
Although Congress has the constitutional authority to propose new amendments to the Constitution to the states for ratification as evidenced by the Constitutions Article V, only the states have the constitutional authority to ratify an amendment proposed by either the states or Congress.
I can understand what Utah is doing if it really wants Congress to propose a repeal 17th Amendment to the states for ratification. Having Congress propose an amendment bypasses Article Vs requirement for a constitutional convention if the states want to propose and ratify a new amendment.
Also, note that all the states are in the poorhouse because corrupt Congress has, for many generations, been stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
It was originally the Senates job to kill unconstitutional House appropriations bills, bills which steal not only 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers. But the ill-conceived 17th Amendment destroyed the firewall that the Senate provided.
The bottom line is that the corrupt Washington cartel will probably fight tooth-and-nail to keep the money-stealing 17th Amendment.
Utah is on the cutting edge of everything. I may just have to move there.
Excellent! Howe many more do we need?
If not for the Seventeenth Amendment Bob Bennett would still be the junior senator from Utah and not Mike Lee.
Good! Put that on the list for an Article V Convention of States.
Article V ping!
This would be outstanding!
Not sure the people are ready for this yet, but it would solve so many problems, hard to count them all.
It would be a good start. Repealing the 16th would be another step in the right direction.
The states do not need to beg. They have Constitutional means without Congress.
If it would get rid of Hatch, I’d support it, but in Utah’s legislature’s case, they’d probably coronate him.
People who live outside Utah think the state is conservative, but you’ve never seen a bigger bunch of nanny staters than the Utah state legislature.
And the 16th while you’re at it.
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