The Committee of 50 States, of which I am founder and president, is currently trying to find a state sponsor who would propose a new federal government and Constitution. Several state legislators in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona have expressed interest in our work, and they realize that this notion of forming a new government and...

The nine states that ratified the Constitution on June 21, 1788, created an entirely new government. This government was not patterned after the one established under the Articles of Confederation, which was created by the 13 states just seven years before. The Articles actually transferred very little power to the agent they called the “central,”...