[texson66]

I for one am completely fed up with the federal courts acting as a congress and congress not acting responsibly.

Maybe its time for an amendment to add a fourth power to the equation: the right of the people to throw out 1) any ruling that the federal courts (privacy & diversity) pass by a simple majority national vote or any law passed by congress and signed by the president. (Congressional pay raises)This returns the power back to the individual.

At least 26 state legislatures would have to act to hold state elections to determine if the examples above would remain as legistated law or judicial legistaion.

If congress would not act on such an amendment, then the states still have the power to call a constitutional convention to do it! And even the people can call such a convention (with or without the politicans):

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,...

The time is coming..

[ellery]

Maybe its time for an amendment to add a fourth power to the equation: the right of the people to throw out 1) any ruling that the federal courts (privacy & diversity) pass by a simple majority national vote or any law passed by congress and signed by the president. (Congressional pay raises)This returns the power back to the individual.

I'm sick of judicial activism too, but what you suggest does not return power to the individual -- it gives absolute power to the majority (as in "tyranny of").