Thank you for referencing that article vg0va3. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
To begin with, just as with states like Oklahoma, I used to admire Arizona’s stand for 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty. But as I learned more about Constitution-ignoring Sen. John McCain, I have come to the conclusion that Arizona’s left hand doesn’t know what its right hand is doing.
Next, the Constitution doesn’t need to be amended imo; if it’s not broke then don’t fix it. The real problem with the Constitution is that many generations of parents have failed to make sure that their children are taught why the Founding States made the Constitution in the first place, to deliberately limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers. And as a consequence of widespread ignorance of the federal government’s constitutonally limited powers, the corrupt federal government has gotten away with expanding its powers without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state majority.
That being said, if some “patriots” feel that they “just gotta” amend the Constitution, I would support amending it to give the states the power to recall Constitution-ignoring federal lawmakers, executives and justices.
But recall power would only amount to a safety net for the following reason. If patriots get low-information voters up to speed on the federal government’s constitutionally-limited powers, then voters would probably lose interest in federal government anyway. This is because, in times of peace, one of the few powers that Congress has to regulate intrastate commerce is to manage US Mail services, such powers evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I. For nearly all other “government” services, voters need to work with their state lawmakers for solutions, not the federal government.
The problem is it is broken (IMO).
The greatest action to restore state authority is the repealing on the 17th amendment. If the Senate was made to recognize the states again you would eliminate people like McCain et al.
However, a compact needs to be established that allows states to have a process for executing Amendments bringing the federal government back under the control of the people and states.