Another Thing We Need A Constitutional Amendment For

You know, there is nothing in the Constitution about a central bank.

Ah, it would be so nice.

I realize this is just a daydream of some president with the gall to use his executive power to protect the constitution.

Oh, and the entire alphabet soup of the departments packed up and sent home! Dept. of Education, BATF, EPA, DEA, etc... (I wonder if 'etc...' is capable of handling the task I just gave it.)

Still, I think the mechanism behind this daydream still makes sense. If we can tilt the incentives in favor of governors acting independently and against the illegitimacy of the federal governments, we'd make some wonderful strides towards freedom. The question is how to do this, and most especially, is there a way to do this that doesn't involve presidential power? Some small change that can be made that would change the relationship between the federal and state governments?

I realize there are problems within states, but the competition of 50, instead of having 50 just being beholden to one, would improve the situation considerably. This is what the constitutional amendment process was about, to keep the federal government from taking more power without assent from the states, but nobody thought about how the states would fight back if it weren't followed. Or, perhaps it was thought that they would literally fight, as Jefferson suggested was necessary every so often. Unfortunately, the shackles come with benefits, and apparently no one foresaw that state governments would give up power in return for a chance at the lottery- which is what a slice of the federal budget has become.