Yes, in fact Mark Levin wrote a book on that some years ago, called "The Liberty Amendments." He also pointed out that the states can bypass Congress to form a COS. One of his interesting suggestions was to nullify the 17th Amendment, which took choosing Senators away from the states and made the Senate an elected position.
The wisdom of that is this: We The People already have representation in the House, and while the states once had representation through the Senate, that was taken away and given to the people to decide. States SHOULD have representation in Congress, but after passage of the 17th Amendment, they lost that.
Agree there. When senators were appointed not elected, they could be REMOVED the same way. We gave up our state leverage over them to ensure they voted how the state wanted, by either the legislature voting to remove them or the governor just removing them. There's an issue with corruption either way, so I'm on board with having a method of removing them without letting them SCREW US for 6 years before we can even try to vote them out. From what I recall of US History, reps are different because they are up for re election every 2 years, so they can't cause the same amount of damage. I would like a strick but doable method to remove either if necessary.
Edit: I believe the return states rights portion is to do that very thing as well.
Yes, in fact Mark Levin wrote a book on that some years ago, called "The Liberty Amendments." He also pointed out that the states can bypass Congress to form a COS. One of his interesting suggestions was to nullify the 17th Amendment, which took choosing Senators away from the states and made the Senate an elected position.
The wisdom of that is this: We The People already have representation in the House, and while the states once had representation through the Senate, that was taken away and given to the people to decide. States SHOULD have representation in Congress, but after passage of the 17th Amendment, they lost that.
Agree there. When senators were appointed not elected, they could be REMOVED the same way. We gave up our state leverage over them to ensure they voted how the state wanted, by either the legislature voting to remove them or the governor just removing them. There's an issue with corruption either way, so I'm on board with having a method of removing them without letting them SCREW US for 6 years before we can even try to vote them out. From what I recall of US History, reps are different because they are up for re election every 2 years, so they can't cause the same amount of damage. I would like a strick but doable method to remove either if necessary.
Edit: I believe the return states rights portion is to do that very thing as well.