Tajitj, the states' hands are not tied, merely compliant. We all have the 10th Amendment, we're just afraid to assert it. The proper and Constitutional place to begin to restore the Constitutional order is at the states.
The first and most important step will be to demand that the Federal government cease and desist from doing those things not specifically authorized to it in the Constitution. There really is no mechanism at the US Congress to assert that. In the states, we do have just such a mechanism in the 10th Amendment.
No question that the US Government will continue to attempt to usurp that authority which properly belongs to the states, even after we declare our 10th Amendment sovereignty. But pieces need to be put in place in order.
Once we have a 10th Amendment asserted in the majority of the states, THEN we will have the impetus in the Federal Congress to affect the kinds of necessary reforms to prevent them from attempting to assume powers they have not been granted.
The bottom line is that without 26 or more states having asserted the 10th Amendment, there will be little or no foundation from which to go into the US Congress and demand the kinds of changes that need to be made. Once we DO have a majority of states asserting the 10th, however, we can quite directly point to a REASON for needing those reforms.
"Look, Mr Speaker, the States are nearly in the process of rebellion, and unless we affect the kinds of reform to restore the proper Constitutional Order, we stand in danger of dissolving the Union, ON OUR WATCH! We must not allow that to happen, and therefore we must take steps to restore the Constitutional order once and for all!"
Unless we start in the States, we won't HAVE that kind of argument or evidence to point at as a demonstration of why we need to affect such reforms.
