[Robert DeLong]

That’s all true, but if they can ignore the Constitution we already have what stops them from ignoring new amendments to that Constitution just like they currently do?

[veracious]

I”m all in on US Constitution. When do we throw DC and every _law_ in opposition to it, out?

[DNME]

Would we be flirting with disaster if we reverted back to the de jure Constitution? As in, erase all federal laws, agencies, departments, treaties and SCOTUS "precedent" rulings and start over again with the black-ink document itself? (Existing Amendments would stay, at least for now.)

I think such a "Reset" could save the nation.

Many of our current problems arose when Congress discovered it could take the lazy way out. Instead of making laws, Congress started making agencies. Those agencies began cranking out regulations subject to (rare) Congressional overrides and here we now sit, buried in red tape as our freedoms evaporate and our anger grows.

Just because Congress can muster a majority vote does NOT mean that all laws proposed are Constitutional. Far from it.

Article I Section 8 sets forth the VERY FEW powers actually delegated to the central government. Only those laws that comply exactly with the Constitution are legitimately allowed under the "Necessary and Proper" Clause but the feds claim they are ALL fully Constitutional and therefore the Supreme Law of the Land, so the States must shut up and obey. (We will leave the "State nullification" argument for another time.)

I believe that if we reverted to the de jure Constitution, we would indeed survive. Each State has its own environmental regulations, welfare assistance laws, criminal statutes, etc., so we would hardly become a "lawless" society while our State delegations sort out the federal mess. The military would be kept intact, of course.

Throwing out the federal law book and muzzling SCOTUS would create an enormous screaming noise out of Washington, DC, but I think we need to hear that sound. The system is too clogged and congested to fix anymore, so maybe we need to hit the Constitutional Reset button instead.

[Nuc 1.1]

Very well said.

[litehaus]

Any way to retroactively prosecute a generation or two of “535 Princes of the Universe” (All past and present congresscritters) for knowingly putting our grandchildren in bankruptcy ???

And stripping them all of their pension benefits?

[jpsb]

You don’t get it. We are no longer a constitutional republic. We are now living in a post constitutional America ruled by an oligarchy. The best thing you can do is to vote Trump, since only Trump might restore the republic, might. Cruz or Hillary certainly will not.