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I agree with you whole heartedly. However it has been proven time and again Congress is centralizing more and more and removing power from the States. Our forefathers foresaw this hence they penned in this wonderful article into the Constitution as a last gasp to reign in Federal over reach and bring power back home to the local level.

The discussed amendments thus far come form the Freedom Amendments such as
Impose Congressional term limits
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, returning the election of Senators to state legislatures
“Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to periodic reauthorization and review
Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
Limit eminent domain powers
Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution by bypassing Congress
Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liberty_Amendments

It’s a beautiful article we all should be rejoicing. Congress along with the courts WILL NOT follow the Constitution and there is no one there to hold them accountable

I read the texts for Levin's amendments and, to be honest, they're really quite convoluted, the sort of thing I'd expect from a lawyer… and the sort of thing I'd expect the elites to wrangle to our disadvantage. (Simpler is better, as there's less room for interpretation — OTOH, they should not be simpler than possible [ie an over-simplistic view].)

I much prefer the amendments in this booklet, as they're simpler and actually more limiting than Levin's proposals. (Look at the Fiscal Responsibility Amendment and compare it to Levin's )

Booklet's Proposal	Levin's Proposal
Section I The power of Congress to regulate the value of money is hereby rescinded; the unit of money of the United States is the Dollar. Section II The value of the Dollar shall be one fifteen-hundredth avoirdupois ounce of gold of which impurities do not exceed one part per thousand. Section III To guard against Congress using its authority over weights and measures to bypass Section I, the ounce in Section II is approximately 28.3495 grams (SI). Section IV The Secretary of the Treasury shall annually report the gold physically in its possession; this report shall be publicly available. Any five states may commission a third party audit to confirm this report at their own expense. Section V The power of the Congress to assume debt is hereby restricted: the congress shall assume no debt that shall cause the total obligations of the United States to exceed one hundred ten percent of the amount last reported by the Secretary of the Treasury. Section VI Any government agent, officer, judge, justice, employee, representative, or congressman causing gold, money, or real estate to be confiscated from a citizen shall be tried for theft and upon conviction shall: be removed from office (and fired, if an employee), forfeit all pension and retirement benefits, pay all legal costs, and restore to the bereaved twice the amount in controversy. Section VII The federal government shall assume no obligation lacking funding, neither shall it lay such obligation on any of the several States, any subdivision thereof, or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States. All unfunded liabilities heretofore assumed by the United States are void. Section VIII The federal government shall make all payments to its employees or the several states in physical gold. Misappropriation, malfeasance and/or misfeasance of funds shall be considered confiscation and theft.	SECTION 1: Congress shall adopt a preliminary fiscal year budget no later than the first Monday in May for the following fiscal year, and submit said budget to the President for consideration. SECTION 2: Shall Congress fail to adopt a final fiscal year budget prior to the start of each fiscal year,which shall commence on October 1 of each year,and shall the President fail to sign said budget into law, an automatic, across-the-board, 5 percent reduction in expenditures from the prior year's fiscal budget shall be imposed for the fiscal year in which a budget has not been adopted. SECTION 3: Total outlays of the federal government for any fiscal year shall not exceed its receipts for that fiscal year. SECTION 4: Total outlays of the federal government for each fiscal year shall not exceed 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product for the previous calendar year. SECTION 5: Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government but shall not include those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States Government except those for the repayment of debt principal. SECTION 6: Congress may provide for a one-year suspension of one or more of the preceding sections in this Article by a three-fifths vote of both Houses of Congress, provided the vote is conducted by roll call and sets forth the specific excess of outlays over receipts or outlays over 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product. SECTION 7: The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased unless three-fifths of both Houses of Congress shall provide for such an increase by roll call vote. SECTION 8: This Amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification.

Booklet's Proposal

Levin's Proposal

Section I
The power of Congress to regulate the value of money is hereby rescinded; the unit of money of the United States is the Dollar.

Section II
The value of the Dollar shall be one fifteen-hundredth avoirdupois ounce of gold of which impurities do not exceed one part per thousand.

Section III
To guard against Congress using its authority over weights and measures to bypass Section I, the ounce in Section II is approximately 28.3495 grams (SI).

Section IV
The Secretary of the Treasury shall annually report the gold physically in its possession; this report shall be publicly available. Any five states may commission a third party audit to confirm this report at their own expense.

Section V
The power of the Congress to assume debt is hereby restricted: the congress shall assume no debt that shall cause the total obligations of the United States to exceed one hundred ten percent of the amount last reported by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Section VI
Any government agent, officer, judge, justice, employee, representative, or congressman causing gold, money, or real estate to be confiscated from a citizen shall be tried for theft and upon conviction shall:

be removed from office (and fired, if an employee),
forfeit all pension and retirement benefits,
pay all legal costs, and
restore to the bereaved twice the amount in controversy.

Section VII
The federal government shall assume no obligation lacking funding, neither shall it lay such obligation on any of the several States, any subdivision thereof, or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States. All unfunded liabilities heretofore assumed by the United States are void.

Section VIII
The federal government shall make all payments to its employees or the several states in physical gold. Misappropriation, malfeasance and/or misfeasance of funds shall be considered confiscation and theft.

SECTION 1:
Congress shall adopt a preliminary fiscal year budget no later than the first Monday in May for the following fiscal year, and submit said budget to the President for consideration.

SECTION 2:
Shall Congress fail to adopt a final fiscal year budget prior to the start of each fiscal year,which shall commence on October 1 of each year,and shall the President fail to sign said budget into law, an automatic, across-the-board, 5 percent reduction in expenditures from the prior year's fiscal budget shall be imposed for the fiscal year in which a budget has not been adopted.

SECTION 3:
Total outlays of the federal government for any fiscal year shall not exceed its receipts for that fiscal year.

SECTION 4:
Total outlays of the federal government for each fiscal year shall not exceed 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product for the previous calendar year.

SECTION 5:
Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government but shall not include those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States Government except those for the repayment of debt principal.

SECTION 6:
Congress may provide for a one-year suspension of one or more of the preceding sections in this Article by a three-fifths vote of both Houses of Congress, provided the vote is conducted by roll call and sets forth the specific excess of outlays over receipts or outlays over 17.5 percent of the Nation's gross domestic product.

SECTION 7:
The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased unless three-fifths of both Houses of Congress shall provide for such an increase by roll call vote.

SECTION 8:
This Amendment shall take effect in the fourth fiscal year after its ratification.

The booklet's isn't dependent on GDP, which can be manipulated, but upon the actual amount in the treasury, which must be store of physical monies, thereby bypassing a whole host of manipulations. Section 7 also prohibits abuses from unfunded liabilities in a straightforward manner.