The Liberty Amendments

The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic is a book by the American talk radio host and lawyer Mark Levin, published in 2013. In it, Levin lays out and makes a case for eleven Constitutional amendments which he believes would restore the Constitution’s chief components: federalism, republicanism, and limited government.

Summary
The eleven amendments proposed by Levin: Levin would have these amendments proposed to the states by a convention of the states as described in Article Five of the Constitution.
 * 1) Impose Congressional term limits
 * 2) Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, returning the election of Senators to state legislatures
 * 3) Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
 * 4) Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
 * 5) Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
 * 6) Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to periodic reauthorization and review
 * 7) Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
 * 8) Limit eminent domain powers
 * 9) Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution by bypassing Congress
 * 10) Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
 * 11) Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting

Reception
The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in all three categories for which it qualified.