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Thank you for referencing that article Eagle Forgotten. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I posted it to spark discussion. Thanks for offering the reassurance, but anyone who's upset by honest disagreement shouldn't be on FR.

The problem is that most of us have grown up under a corrupt federal government.

The flip side is that millions of Americans don't vote. They may not be as wedded to the status quo as you think. Some have given up in disgust. Mobilize them, plus all the angry conservatives, and something could happen -- though, I admit, probably not for 2016.

I think that the next amendment to the Constitution needs to have a provision which prohibits political party support for the constitutionally limited power federal government.

Here I have to part company. I just don't see how that could be done. If a bunch of people agree with each other, you can't stop them from working together.

"If a bunch of people agree with each other, you can't stop them from working together."

As I mentioned previously, military issues aside, one of the few jobs that the Founding States gave to the feds is to deliver mail; no need for a political party system to deliver mail.

For most other "government" services, patriots need to work with their state lawmakers.

In fact, the Supreme Court has clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constituitonal Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So if citizens worked with their state lawmakers to put an end to the tsunami of constitutionally infedersible federal taxes now going to DC, then the individual states could implement the "government" services that the citizens of a given state want and ignore the feds for the most part.