I’m afraid out problem is the practical enforcement of the Constitution. Congress being full of politicians are disinclined to limit their own power. The Federal courts being appointed by the same are similarly disinclined to limit Federal Power.
hell the only one even remotely inclined to limited federal power are the ones who stand to loses, namely those made subject to the same, the people and their States.
Here lays the problem, Unless you can get it to where the Constitution is practically enforced and interpreted by a party with a vested intrest in the goverment which it defines being limited, the document is little more then a peace of paper.
Until the Time of the U.S. Civil War the People and their States had a equal or superior right to enforce the Constitution then the Federal government and its court, this was practical cause they also held all the practical powers.(The Federal government was mostly impudent prior to the civil war, and thats the way it was meant to be for good reason!)
If we want to restore our system we have to clearly restore the balance of power back to the people and their states and away from the Federal government. That means the Constitution needs to be practically enforced and interpreted by the People and their states NOT the same government which is defined by it.
Any amendment should be looking towards that end.
I honestly would like to spell out that in matters of Law of the Federal constitution as it retains to the limits of federal power to be resolved by State courts.
If we want to restore our system we have to clearly restore the balance of power back to the people and their states and away from the Federal government. That means the Constitution needs to be practically enforced and interpreted by the People and their states NOT the same government which is defined by it.
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How do we do this? I want this.
The States and the People are the only guardians the Founders left to enforce our Constitution. If we are not men enough to demand these rights, we do not deserve them. Our Fathers did not ask for Liberty; they demanded it.