If not Levin's plan, what then do you propose to save this country? My understanding is that several scholars who first took your position have since, after reading his book, agreed with Mark.
Well, we do have a Constitution we're not using. Maybe we should use
that one.
Seriously though, an effort to repeal the 16th and 17th amendments would go a long way toward improving matters. Even with that, we need our "leaders"-- actually, our employees-- to recognize and abide by whatever we end up with.