i am actually quite familiar with Madison’s Federalist #46. Nowhere in that writing does Madison anywhere suggest that writing more Constitution is the remedy for the federal government deliberately ignoring the existing Constitution.
Furthermore, nowhere in Federalist #46 does Madison indicate that the State governments are somehow immune to the Corruptions seen in the Federal government, particularly when those corruptions originate from the ignorance of the people themselves.
> “Nowhere in that writing does Madison anywhere suggest that writing more Constitution is the remedy for the federal government deliberately ignoring the existing Constitution.”
Nowhere in Madison’s time could he or any of his colleagues have imagined an era of supercilious academic arrogance of a President Woodrow Wilson and the 1913 passage of the 16th, 17th and 18th Amendments, all of which are a stain on the US Constitution.
The 17th was the poison that has put the Republic on a slow track of self-destruction. The frog now is attempting to escape the boiling pot via Article V and you are attempting to mislead the public to escape via the theory of Nullification which has no explicit constitutional authority.
Then tell me, what did Madison mean by "the powers proposed to be lodged in the federal government are as little formidable to those reserved to the individual States, as they are indispensably necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Union?"
Is an Article V proposing convention not a power of the states?
Why did Madison declare that state powers are "indispensably necessary" to the nation?
Would you only be satisfied if Madison had listed specifically those powers?
Federalist 46 clearly described situations that would drive states to push back with all of the "indispensably necessary" powers that they could muster, and those powers include Article V proposing conventions. At the time, they also included replacing their Senators at the end of their terms.
-PJ