Why the 2nd Amendment may no longer be revelent to the Federal Government

[BjornF16]

How are the amendment checks when the courts are free to interpret them in any way that suits them best?

Since George Washington, tradition held that a president was limited to 2 terms in office. FDR blew that off. Consequently, there was an Amendment to limit a President to 10 years in office. Kind of hard to interpret that any other way...

Congress tried passing a line item veto to control pork spending...courts struck it down as unconstitutional. Passing an amendment that clearly spells out the cases in which it could be applied would make it "constitutional".