Several people including Mark Levin and Randy Barnett have suggested and advocated ways to amend the Constitution to repair the relationship that the federal government has with the States and the People. We have the opportunity to redefine the federal government in a peaceful way in order to stop such outrages.
As government expands, private liberty and decisionmaking must retreat. We have allowed government to create a self-funding, privately owned monster and given it the power to create near infinite amounts of money and debt by which to enable near-infinite government. We now give it power to continually monitor every time we spend our money, and now they are even monitoring what we spend it on. Our founding fathers did not debate and ratify a Fourth Amendment so government could be our Big Brother. No, quite the opposite.
Up until now, many have feared that calling for a Convention to amend the Constitution carried a greater risk to our rights than the status quo. By now it should be clear that the trajectory of government is chilling and wise people will see that we must return it to its proper cage and chains before we no longer have the means to do so.
Article V was no accident or afterthought by the founders. They KNEW we would get to this point and provided us a LAST, peaceful way to help ourselves...
Excellent analysis...
A term-limit, balanced-budget and repeal of the 17th set of amendments would go a LONG way to helping the states recover some of THEIR independence and ultimately ours...
http://www.conventionofstates.com/
Very well said.
Agree. However, I would not say it is to “repair” the relationship, but rather to put the power back into the hands of the states (closer to the people) where it belongs.
The logic is there; the calculus of this trajectory is indisputable, the math calls for it...(see tagline)