Sorry but article five is NO alternative. Amending the constitution is pointless when you have a supreme court that rewrites the law as it pleases. If our government followed the existing constitution there would be little need for amendments and there is no reason to believe they will follow an amended constitution any more than they follow the existing one. Many and I would probably argue most of the amendments that have been passed already were mistakes. If the tenth amendment of the bill of rights had been followed much of what we are concerned about would never have happened. You cannot solve the problem of lawbreaking by passing more and different laws, the greatest lawbreaker now is OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. As long as we have judges who follow the “living, breathing document” line of thinking it matters not at all what the constitution says. What that phrase really means is that the constitution that exists or an amended one means only what the judges wish it to mean. We need at least three more like Scalia or Thomas on the court before the constitution has any meaning again.
Benjamin Martin: Would you tell me, please, Mister Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a King can.