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Thank you for referencing that article Tolerance Sucks Rocks. As usual, note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Utah lawmakers recently approved a resolution calling on Congress to ratify [??? emphasis added] an amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing the Seventeenth Amendment."

The above statement is so badly worded that I wonder if Utah lawmakers are pulling an election year stunt.

More specifically, Congress has no constitutional authority to ratify proposed amendments to the Constitution. Congress has the authority only to propose amendments to the states for ratification which the states can choose not to ratify.

Also, the 17th Amendment (17A) is the basis for the tsunami of unconstitutional federal taxes which low-information taxpayers have been paying for decades imo, taxes which corrupt Congress cannot justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“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.

Part of the reason that the Founding States had established the Senate was so that the Senate could kill unconstitutional House appropriations bills, bills that steal not only 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.

But thanks to the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, low-information voters now elect politicians on the basis of promises of establishing federal spending programs which voters don’t understand the feds have no constitutional authority to establish.

So the corrupt Washington cartel will probably fight tooth and nail to preserve 17A. But maybe Trump will see the problems with 17A and help us to get rid of it.