Repeal The 17th Amendment Of The U.S. Constitution

Posted: 9/11/2016

Trigger

Just came across this future and interesting event of the Claremont Institute, i.e. Checks and Balances? State Sovereignty and the 17th Amendment.

This awful Amendment has irked me for some time. How could a majority of states (or the people behind it) back in 1913 be so stupid to give up federalism or sending Senators to the U.S. Congress?

I am shocked to learn that my current home state Arizona was the second state to ratify this Amendment.

Notes

The 17th Amendment is one of those monsters that were introduced in the U.S. Constitution during the socialist/progressive era that need to be undone! This Amendment has certainly upset the carefully crafted checks and balances of the U.S. Constitution.

Other highly questionable Amendments were the already failed Prohibition (18th Amendment of 1920), women’s suffrage (19th Amendment of 1920, a largely superfluous Amendment at the time), federal income taxation (16th Amendment of 1913).

It should have been left to the sovereignty of each state to decide how U.S. Senators are elected or to regulate women’s suffrage.

I am with the Utah legislature that “On March 2, 2016, ... approved Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 asking Congress to offer an amendment to the United States Constitution that would repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.”