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Yet another intolerable infringement on States rights.

The States have to start pushing back. There is already a long list of things they must do to balance the power of the federal government, restore it to order, and reduce its scale and scope. So many have built up over two centuries that it requires a constitutional convention.

The following are proposed constitutional amendments.

Repeal of the 16th (Income Tax) and 17th (Direct Election of US Senators) Amendments of the constitution.

(Another Form of Federal Tax) Amendment.

Balanced Federal Budget.

Prohibition of Off Budget Expenditures.

Presidential Line Item Veto.

National Census Enumeration Only

Personal Information and Records Limitation by Government and Private Individuals and Organizations.

Corporate Civil Rights As Distinct From The Civil Rights Of Living Persons.

Oligopoly Antitrust.

Presidential War Powers.

Posse Comitatus.

Limitation on Presidential Authority To Declare Martial Law.

Presidential Authority Only Through Cabinet Officers, Appointment and Impeachment of Cabinet Officers. Term Limits for Recess And Temporary Appointments.

Itemized Congressional Approval of All Bureaucratic Regulatory Authority.

The Creation of a State Appointed Constitutional Review Court (50 State Judges To Sit As a Federal Nullification Court, a Second Court of the United States).

Structural Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary and Limitations to the Authority of Federal Judges.

Reduction of the Size and Authority of the Federal Government and Enabling Acts.

Congressional and Judicial Term Limits.

Restoration of State Lands from Federal Land Takings and Limitations of Eminent Domain.

The Creation of a National Tribal Congress for Indigenous Peoples (renegotiation of treaties and integration of tribal and commercial law).

Limitations of Federal Intelligence and Federal Police Authority. The “Sheriffs First” Rule.

Renunciation of the National Debt.

Abolition of the FED.

Prohibition of Federal Largess to Individuals.

Restrictions on Earmarks, Single Subject Congressional Acts.

Abolition of All Government Employee Unions.

(Importantly, this is not an exclusive list. But these are subjects that our State legislators should be debating right now. Nullification, nor just a constitutional amendment or two cannot correct 200+ years of housekeeping that need to be done.)