While I support the idea that rotten amendments like the 16th and 17th need to be repealed, and could also suggest some new amendments, I also think that impeachments for government ”leaders” who ignore the Constitution, particularly state sovereignty, are long overdue.
In fact, a major problem with overdue impeachments is that the lawmakers who have the power to impeach need to be impeached themselves.
When it comes to the issue of abuses of power, the only party that will ever reconcile such abuses is the party out of power, and against whom such power is being abused.
Impeachment is not such a grand idea when it comes to limiting power. It is at best only practical when there are clearly a criminal behavior on the part of the official which nobody supports.
If you want to check power you must check power by someone or group with a natural interest in opposing the illegitimate power.
The original presumption was that the function of the system which originally depended heavily upon all 3 branches agreeing on Federal issues, and the States cooperating on domestic matters would have the rendering the Government difficult to enforce without all officials involved agreeing with the legitimacy of the action.
That system however fell apart as the Feds acquired the means to enforce their own domestic laws, and their court’s acquired the legal means to command elected officials at the state level. (effectively nullifying the 11th amendment)