[Amendment10]

I appreciate the points made in the OP. However, I will point out that the existing contract to limit government, the wrongly ignored federal Constitution, which the Founders made to intentionally limit the powers of the federal government, would practically shut down the federal government if the people would demand that DC politicians respect it.

[Pan_Yan]

There are only two ways to restore the constitutional limits of the federal government. You can somehow convince the majority of Americans to vote for true conservatives for at least 20 straight years. Then you need divide intervention to keep the elected officials from 'going native' once they spend a few years in D.C.

The other is an overthrow of the government including banishing all politicians, lobbyists, beaurocrats and the rest of the inside-the-beltway gang.

The first will take a string of extraordinary leaders to pull off. The Pax Reagana lasted less than 20 years after his departure from the White House. The second is currently impossible since the idea of armed revolution is abhorrent to most people at this time (including me).