Correct. If we only get one amendment the repeal of the 17th is probably the most important. Second to that is a nullification process for federal laws and federal court decisions. Third elimination of the income tax amendment and elimination of the authority of congress to write national tax law. Replacing the income tax with a national sales tax of say 10%. Prohibit transfer payments of any type by the federal government. There are other changes that are needed but these IMHO would fix our problems. And it is important to note the problem is not the constitution but our corrupt government and people.
I would accept any and all measures you just proposed, and thou I might agree with your prioritization of their resistances I also believe we must take whatever of them we can get.
In general however I don’t believe the 17th Amendment is more important than a nullification process which should require not more than 1/3rd of the states in veto of a edit.
The laws of a Constitution of limited Government are by nature designed to protect the minority.
The truth is we don’t need the Federal court system involved in any intrastate domestic matter period just like we don’t need or authorize congress in such matters.
We the people have labored to create State Constitutions and elect State and Local governments for this matter. The Time, attention, and resources of congress should be focused upon foreign matters which have been sadly in Gross neglect.
Given the remote possibility that you haven’t seen the following excerpt, you might find it interesting. The corrupt feds now wrongly ignore that the Supreme Court has historically clarified that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.