I agree with not adding to the Constitution. But we need to repeal/rescind 3 major corruptions that set the stage for our government deteriorating from a Constitutional Republic to an oligarchy (“Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens” by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page of Princeton: http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf )
The corruptions are: 1. 16th Amendment, reducing us all to serfs by allowing a federal income tax. 2. 17th Amendment, eradicating the influence of the States by taking the election of federal Senators from the State Legislatures and giving it over to general election. House rule in 1928 limiting House membership to 435, effectively replacing our citizen statesmen and women with career politicians, eliminating the voice of the people from influencing government.
Simply repealing/rescinding these three corruptions will rebalance our ship of state and restore self-government. Please see my Federalist Letters to Corporate American at my blog (see signature line).
Once these are effected, then we should re-evaluate to determine if any additions should be made, but not until we eliminate the existing corruption of the founding principles.
Thank you for your truly excellent post. It is a delight to live in a country that has even one such as you, and I am sure that there are many many others. You are a patriot and a scholar.
My question is that I can see no way to get there. I mean no way at all, including a con-con or even a civwarII or anything in between. I can see a currency collapse or an invasion as possible, but neither would bring about these things. Any ideas? What next?
You are aware that a states convention can do those three things you suggest? And it does not open the constitution to allow anyone to change anything they should want to. The convention of states does not work that way.