[theBuckwheat]

It cuts both ways: what if enough States voted to reject the present Federal Government?

Indeed with ObamaCare (tm) we have arrived the point where the present government with presently enacted laws is on the verge of being more dangerous to liberty and prosperity than anything that could be ratified by the States following a Constitutional Convention.

[Little Ray]

That has been tried. It didn’t work out very well.

[Carry_Okie]

It cuts both ways: what if enough States voted to reject the present Federal Government?

Think of the impact of the following Amendment:

Officers of the Executive Branch, having shown willful disregard for the limits of their enumerated powers under this Constitution, shall be subject to life imprisonment without possibility of parole provided a majority of State legislatures concur.

Legislators of the United States, having shown willful disregard for the limits of their enumerated powers under this Constitution, shall be subject to life imprisonment without possibility of parole provided a majority of their respective State legislature concur.

Judges of the United States, having shown willful disregard for the limits of their enumerated powers under this Constitution, shall be subject to life imprisonment without possibility of parole provided two-thirds of the Senate concur.

I'm with Patrick Henry. Make them pay for the crime of usurpation of power. I'd like to see the same proviso within the States too.

[itsahoot]

It cuts both ways: what if enough States voted to reject the present Federal Government?

You mean like 1861? 750,000 dead in that one, they would never settle with that few casualties now.