An amendment will be as obeyed as the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendments are
Problematic. They respect neither the Constitution nor the rule of law unless they benefit from it. They don’t even pass budgets anymore so what sense is a balanced budget amendment? They do their spending via continuing resolutions.
You are 100% correct — unless states can start impeaching and removing activist judges and Fed appointees of the executive branch. When someone is removed in disgrace, cut off from the Federal troth, I think the ones who still have jobs will get the picture.
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