"Of 44,195 bills passed by Congress in over 200 years, only 3,163 were passed in its first 50 years and 41 percent were passed in the last 50 years. "
Go back to 1933 or so and the number of bills passed by Congress rises dramatically. Every third generation or so seems to be able to drastically mess-up the Constitution with its amendnents. The last was Nixon's 18 year olds voting thing. The next one will probably guarantee the voting rights of at risk youth who insist on flaunting their ill-fitting underwear as some sort of fashion statement.
The 16th and 17th Amendments, both ratified in 1913, are the ones that have corroded the Republic, IMO.
I'd like to see three Amendments ratified:
1. The sixteenth article of amendment to the US Constitution is repealed.
2. The seventeenth article of amendment to the US Constitution is repealed.
3. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor forbidden by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.