The only solution to this problem will have to come from outside of Washington D.C. Outside of the ring of what is really self-serving corruption that drives them to do this now.
The only power which can do that in our Union is our States, by taking that power from them by means of amendment the constitution in such a way that it is clear to even them that they cant do that period.

Any man or group of men who is the definer of their own power will in effect have absolute and unlimited power. As it is because of the civil war, and many court rulebooks the Federal government has corruptly been made the excursive definer of its own powers. Federal politicians who directly weld that power benefit on net from that power. While we the people are divided and conqueror over an ever widening spectrum of life issues who's control we lost to that same government and now must debate and compete with 300 million others to have ONE of those aspects of our live run our way, inevitably at the expense of all others.

Being pro war means you have to be pro abortion, being pro abortion means you have to be anti-war. being pro-free market means you have to be anti drug, being anti drug means you have to be anti gun.

Government is at best a necessarily evil because inevitably no matter what choice it makes it will deprive a lot of people of their preference in that area. It is for that reason it was believe that government should NOT only be as limited in spectrum of rolls as possible but also be as local as possible in order to insure that that inherit minority is as small as possible.

With regard to the Federal government that limitation is known as States rights, and as it is the common problem of all the people of all the States then together we must work to restore the rights of our states so that we may restore our own rights.

"[T]here is no just analogy between the State constitutions and that of the United States. In the first place, the Constitution of the United States is not the frame of government to which there is one party. The States are parties, each stipulating and agreeing with each and all the rest.

In the second place, the Constitution of the United States is not the primary social relation of those who formed it. The State governments were already organized, and were adequate to all the purposes of their municipal concerns. The Federal Government was established only for such purposes as the State government could not answer, to wit: the common purposes of all the States.

In the third place, whatever power the States have not delegated to the Federal Government, they have reserved to themselves. … Whatever the Federal Government cannot do for all the States, each State can do for itself, subject only to the restraints of its own constitution.

In all these particulars, the Federal Government is clearly 'distinguishable from the constitutions of the State governments.' The views just presented support this obvious distinction, that in the State constitutions every power is granted that is not denied; in the Federal Constitution, every power is denied which is not granted.

The objects for which the Federal Government was established, are by no means equal in importance to those of the State constitutions. It is difficult to imagine any necessity for a Federal Government at all, except what springs from the relation of the States to foreign nations. A union among them is undoubtedly valuable for many purposes. It renders them stronger and more able to resist their enemies; it attracts to them the respect of other countries, and it gives them advantages in the formation of foreign connections; it facilitates all operations of war, commerce and of foreign diplomacy. But these objects, although highly important, are not so important as those great rights which are secured to us by the State constitutions…we rely exclusively on the State governments for the security of the great rights of life, liberty, and property….Their power pervades all ranks of society, retaining the strong, protecting the weak, succoring the poor, and lifting up the fallen and helpless. They secure to all persons an impartial administration of public justice. In all the daily business of life, we act under the guidance of the State governments. They regulate and secure our rights of property; they enforce our contracts and preside over the peace and safety of our firesides. There is nothing dear to our feelings or valuable to our social condition, for which we are not indebted to their protecting and benignant action. Take away the Federal Government altogether, and we still are free, our rights are still protected, our business is still regulated, and we still enjoy all the other advantages and blessings of established and well-organized government. But if you take away the State governments, what do you have left? A Federal Government which can neither regulate your industry, secure your property, nor protect your person!"

We have lost these principles!!!!

In his classic work of 1868, "The Federal Government, Its True Nature and Character," Able Upshur discussed this principle:

"The Federal Government is the creature of the States. It is not a party to the Constitution, but the result of it — the creation of that agreement which was made by the States as parties. It is a mere agent, entrusted with limited powers for certain specific objects; which powers and objects are enumerated in the Constitution."

Upshur continued by saying:

"According to the principles of all our institutions, sovereignty does not reside in any government whatever, neither State nor federal. Government is regarded merely as the agent of those who create it, and subject in all respects to their will. In the States the sovereign power is in the people of the States respectively; and the sovereign power of the United States would, for the same reason, be in the ‘the people of the United States,’ if there were any such people, known as a single nation, and the framers of the Federal Government. We have already seen, however, that there are no such people, in a strict political sense, and that no such people had any agency in the formation of our Constitution, but that is was formed by the States, emphatically as such. It would be absurd, according to all principles received and acknowledged among us, to say that the sovereign power is in one party, and the power which is in the government is in another. The true sovereignty of the United States, therefore, is in the States, and not in the people of the United States, nor in the Federal Government. That government is but the agent through whom a portion of this sovereign power is exerted; possessing no sovereignty itself, and exerting no power, except which only as its constituents [the States] have conferred on it. In ascertaining what these powers are, it is obviously proper that we should look only to the grant from which they are derived. The agent can claim nothing for itself, and on its own account. The Constitution is a compact, and the parties to it are each State, with each and every other State. The Federal Government is not a party, but is the mere creature of the agreement between the States as parties."

The States' federal government is like the Frankenstein monster-its master…the States…either refuse or have lost the ability to control their monster and the monster is now after us!

Since the Constitution can only be amended by a vote of the States irrespective of the wishes of a majority of the American people, as comprising one nation, we had better find a way to get the States to re-gain control of their federal government or that government will destroy the States and take us with them.