http://conventionofstates.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/COS_Handbook.pdf
Within the limited scope of the subject of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, example of topics for proposed amendments are.
- A balanced budget amendment.
- Reducing federal spending power (fixing the General Welfare Clause).
- Reducing federal regulatory power (fixing the Commerce Clause).
- A prohibition of using international treaties and law to govern the domestic law of the United States.
- Limitation on Executive Orders and Administrative Agency Law.
- Imposing substaive checks on the Souprem Court including term limits.
- A limit on federal taxation.
The only one I don’t support is the balanced budget amendment because it gives politicians “wiggle room” to justify raising taxes. The key is LIMITING SPENDING and the size of the federal government. I would also add another topic for a proposed amendment.
- Limit federal enforcement power over the first ten amendments (fix the 14th Amendment to its original intent: ONLY a prohibition on state segregation laws (as confirmed by the Supreme Court in the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1872)).
I’d like to see an amendment that requires an annual, nothing off budget, before expenditures, detailed budget with a requirement to follow it. There is now no requirement to have a budget, only a constitutional requirement of a report of past expenditures.
It would be nice for it to be balanced, but I’d be tickled just to start at step one and have an enforceable, visible budget of every expenditure with the only exception being a declared war after a budget is passed, and that being part of every subsequent budget.
Structural amendments, like those proposed by Mark Levin are needed.