[Amendment10]

For instance, the 10th Amendment has, for all practical purposes been excised from the constitution.

"For all practical purposes" is not a constitutional term. The only way to repeal any constitutional statute is to amend the Constitution with an express repeal of that statute.

[Jacquerie]

When I scan just the first ten amendments, most are ignored or have been mutilated into nonexistence. The ones that are more or less in effect are those that have private organizations to secure them, such as the NRA which protects the second amendment.

I recall justice Scalia at a chitchat with a congressional committee within the last year. He rattled off a bunch of swell sounding rights from the constitution of the Soviet Union. The problem was that the government, people, everyone ignored them and they were never in force.

The point of Mark's book is to reestablish what we have lost, to restore the American Republic.