Having been dormant for centuries, a potent section in the
U.S. Constitution is now in the minds and on the lips of a new generation of
reformers who are determined to keep the nation out of an abyss. As America stares
hard at the darkness ahead, the new reformers have begun to popularize this
forgotten constitutional provision that might well become Official Washington's
undoing.
The problem, which hardly needs stating, is that the federal
government has become the very monster the founders anticipated. Quite
likely, the beast we face is far beyond anything that could have been imagined
by the founding generation. Even today it is hard to adequately
comprehend the omnipresent and, thanks to the NSA, omniscient federal menace
that overhangs every aspect of life in 21st-century America .
The founders' concern that power would be consolidated at
the federal level is dealt with in Article V of the U.S.
Constitution.
Author Mark Levin, in his
blockbuster best-seller, The
Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic,
based his ideas for reform on this less well-known means by which amendments
may be proposed -- a process that entirely outflanks Washington Washington
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