[TexasFreeper2009]

It was the later amendments that gave the federal government near limitless power, especially the ones forced upon the nation by force after the civil war.

[Cboldt]

The commerce clause is the hook to, I think, the vast majority of federal regulatory overreach.

SCOTUS meddling in social hot button issues is its own doing, and as you suggest, the 14th amendment has been abused. That's where the right to abortion and the right to homosexual marriage were found.

I think the federal progressive income tax is also troublesome, and if undoing the 16th amendment would result in making progressive income tax unconstitutional, I'm all for repeal of the 16th amendment.

Sadly, all of that as well as the OP is wishful thinking. All three branches of the federal government are in cahoots to increase the size, power, and influence of the federal government. Taken in light of the constitution, the federal government is as legitimate as the Mafia is. It rules by brute force and intellectual dishonesty.

[DiogenesLamp]

It was the later amendments that gave the federal government near limitless power, especially the ones forced upon the nation by force after the civil war.

Another person who gets it. Ping to you other guys who don't want to believe it.