Repeating here an illustrative example of how the power of Article V can be unlocked by the States to restore federalism:
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AMENDMENT XXVIII
To redress the balance of powers between the federal government and the States and to restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:
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Section 1.
A Senator in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.
Section 2.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years nor more than eighteen years.
Section 3.
Upon a majority vote in three-fifths of state legislatures, federal statutes, federal court decisions and executive directives of any form shall be overridden.
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If Section 1 above can be replaced with a repeal of the 17th, then that’s even better but it may be a hard sale. Section 1 above gets the job done by making US Senators pay attention to their State Legislators and at the same time requiring both to interact with the state voters.
I would strongly recommend the following must-see video be watched, consumed and studied:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZuV8JnvvA
And I would strongly recommend all to urge respective state senators and state representatives, and the people that work for them, to view it
Federal statutes should be subject to REPEAL by 3/5 of the State legislatures, not to "override".
Federal court decisions should not be subject to "override", because that leaves the statute books a mess. And the question arises would such an override apply just to the parties to a case, or would it create new law (applying to all)? Good concept, unclear how it could work.
Likewise, "executive decisions of whatever form". The State legislatures are not administrators. Could they decide what kind of pencils to buy? (absurd example to illustrate the issue). The scope of Executive branch actions subject to reversal would need to be tightened up before writing an amendment.