[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Precedent seems to be that once an amendment is ratified, it’s forever. The “equal rights” amendment was not ratified by the requistite 3/4 of states within seven years of introduction and was “deemed” to have failed. The Constitution does not impose a time limit, but by tradition an proposed amendment has seven years to be approved by the legislatures of 3/4 of the states.

If we’re in a repealing mood, I could go for the XIXth, the source of most of our troubles.

[Not an Obomunist]

I agree that our troubles arise from changing the original document. If we could go back to just the original ten amendments it would be ideal. But I still think if we could starve the dragon by taking away the gushing flow of tax dollars it would be a good start, although we would probably need to require currency of gold, silver and copper to prevent their inflating their way to free spending.

I have always thought seizure of accounts and property by the IRS without going before a judge and getting a legal warrant is a violation of the 4th amendment protections and should be prohibited.