What is the proposed remedy if the amendment is ignored? Who will enforce the remedy?
The Founders left the States and the People as the enforcers of our Constitution; there is no other provision. The People and States made two fatal errors that will be our undoing unless they are corrected. First, we allowed the income tax which accrued vast sums of wealth in the hands of the government that they can use to our disadvantage. Second, following World War II. the U.S. Army did not disband as it had after every conflict up to and including World War I.
Before you think I’m radical or crazy, hear me out and check your history, friends. The reason you and i feel (and are) powerless against Big Government in Washingrad is because they have more money and superior firepower. Our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is relatively useless as a check on a government that we bought Tomahawk missiles and Apache gunships. By allowing a standing army rather than disbanding back into militia in 1945, we equipped Washington with a palace guard that can be used against the People. The Constitution (check it out...) makes NO PROVISION for an army. That was no oversight. It provides for a navy which, in the 18th century was a defensive force for our coasts. But the Founders provided no standing army. A standing American army, in fact, was prohibited in many state constitutions, Pennsylvania’s and Virginia’s, for example.
By giving Uncle Sam a cut of every dollar we earn (income tax, 1913)and building him a military superior to the firepower of the citizens (1945), we have locked ourselves into a permanent position of inferiority to the federal government. We have exchanged our liberty for security, against which Ben Franklin warned us, and now we have neither.
The one and only way to cut Washington down to size again is to defund and defang it. That is, repeal the income tax and dissolve the standing military in favor of State militia.
I know. I know what you’re going to say. I know it’s never going to happen, I know it’s the 21st century, I know it’s a dangerous world, I know, I know, I know...I’m simply retracing what went wrong and explaining why we can’t fix things so long as Washingrad has more money and bigger guns. the preclusion against a standing army is the companion principle to the Second Amendment; they work in tandem and were meant to operate in harmony. by no means give up your Second Amendment (!!!, but the reality is that since 1945 is has been stripped of any real power as a check on federal usurpations and is reduced to a matter of home security, target practice and sport hunting.
That said, the States still have the Tenth Amendment and MUST reassert it to the fullest extent of the law. When you or i break the law, we don’t lose our jobs in 4 Novembers-—we go to jail. When traitors in Washingrad break the Supreme Law of the Land, they need to be dragged to jail for treason. Only the States remain equipped to press for this.
Bottom line, there’s no recliner-bound push-button remote way to restore a Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately it will take sacrifices and courage on the part of individual Americans and of the 50 States.