George Washington warned of entangling alliances that would suck the new nation into Europe's constant wars, fought between monarchical sociopaths always seeking some new territory or advantage over the European mad men or women of other royal houses.

It is time for the people to demand that their state governments stand up to the federal government and rein in the insanity that rages in Washington. This amendment will re-establish state sovereignty and its proper function as intermediary between the national government and the citizens over whom the federal government should has no power, except as participants in disputes in interstate matters. Prior to the "Civil War" ( I prefer the more correct, War of Northern Aggression) and the Fourteenth Amendment we were citizen's of our states, not of the nation.

Constitutional Commission Amendment
 
Section 1.  The Constitutional Commission shall settle questions presented by the several states concerning the constitutionality of measures or actions taken by the government of the United States.
 
Section 2.  The Constitutional Commission shall be composed of one Commissioner from each state, elected every second year by the people thereof from two candidates chosen by the state legislature, and the electors chosen by the state legislature, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for the electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature; each Commissioner shall have one vote. 
 
Section 3.  No person except a natural born citizen shall be eligible for the office of Commissioner; nor shall any person be eligible for the office who shall not have attained the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States, and been nine years a resident of that state for which he shall be chosen.  No person shall be elected to the office of Commissioner more than four times. 
 
Section 4.  When vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess in the legislature of any state, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall choose two candidates to present to the people to fill the vacancy. 
 
Section 5. The Constitutional Commission shall assemble it least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the third day in January, unless it shall appoint a different day. The Constitutional Commission shall choose its Chairman and other officers. The Commission shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, and three-fourths of the Commissioners shall constitute a quorum to do business.  The Commission may determine the rules of its proceedings.  The commission shall keep a journal of the proceedings, and from time to time publish the same. 
 
Section 6.  No Commissioner shall receive compensation for his services out of the Treasury of the United States.  No Commissioner shall, during his time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States. 
 
Section 7.  Whenever the Chairman of the Constitutional Commission shall receive petitions from one-fifth of the legislatures of the several states requesting a ruling on the constitutionality of a specific measure or action of the government of the United States, the Commission shall convene.  The act or measure of the national government shall be void and no force if three-fourths of the Commissioners present vote against its constitutionality. 
 
Section 8. The Constitutional Commission shall not sit as a Convention as prescribed in Article V of the Constitution of the United States. 
 
Used with the permission of the author from the book:
Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
An Independent Institute Book
Published by Palgrave McMillan

Powers come from "man" but "rights" come from God (our Creator). "Powers" may be changed by man but "rights" (natural rights) are inalienable because of their origins. And as such, "rights" are inherent in our being and cannot be relinquished, stolen, or given; only our Creator has that power; man does not.

"Powers" are different. Powers are created by man and as such may be changed, usurped, and all other things that man can think to do. The 10th Amendment place a "limit" on the "powers" of the United States (Federal government) and, to a lesser extent by prohibition, the remaining powers that are the province of the State and the people.

The term "State's rights" has created a confusion among both the people and their representatives and led to all grades of mischief such as the "right" to health-care. Health-care is not a "right" (as is defined in our Constitution) but health-care may be mandated using the "power" of government. However, government cannot use the justification of "right" in that mandate. Also, in so doing, the government must necessarily abridge our "natural" rights which is NOT allowed under the Constitution. Neither the United States nor the States may abridge "natural rights" except by and through due process such as in matters of capital crimes and other crimes; health-care does not fulfill that requirement.

It is also my opinion that The "Bill of Rights" has been much abused by the removal of the "Preamble to the Bill of Rights". When one reads the Preamble one sees that the later amendments after the 10th drift into the establishment of law and the gathering of power to the Federal government and not the protection of "rights" and the proper limitation of of the "powers" of government as the Bill of Rights was intended to instruct. The validity of those later amendments following the 10th are, then, in question with regard to the Preamble tof the Bill of Rights, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution itself.

In terms of mathematics, here it is: in any suffienctly complex, consistent axiomatic system of number theory, there exists undecidable propositions. It has a second part, which is, no such system can prove its own consistency from within itself.

What that means is this: there is no one system, law, religion, philosophy, etc, that can possibly contain all truth within that one system, and there is no way to prove its consistency within itself.

So, a truly federalized, de-centralized system is mathematically correct!

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