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.
IMO, the ‘reset’ is exactly what’s needed. Then lay down the few ‘extras’ needed.
>Instead of making laws, Congress started making agencies.
Again, govt decided NOT to follow the Constitution (ONLY the legislative can make law, there is no option to delegate), and the rest just ‘went along’.
>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.
IMO, the sound we need to be hearing more often is, ‘Urghk’, as the trapdoor falls and the rope pulls tight.
We the People haven’t replenished the Tree of Liberty for FAR too long now for govt to see whom the power resides.
Gosh, but I wish you had read my post before responding to the title.