Of course, the Kentucky Resolutions were used to keep the US government from stopping the importation of potentially dangerous foreigners.
Yes, taking the time to amend the Constitution to grant the feds the power that they urgently need to address time-critical issues is a problem. And you would think that the states would have addressed such problems by now. But the states have been asleep at the wheel as evidenced by the unconstitutionally big federal government.
As a side-note about delays, I understand that the Allied invasion of Normandy was successful because Hitler was at a weekend birthday party for one of his generals, corrections welcome. The front-line German soldiers had to leave a message on Hitlers answering machine. /sarc