Representative Rob Bishop has introduced the so-called Repeal Amendment in the House of Representative as a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The idea is to give the states a mechanism to preserve federalism from their end:
The U.S. Constitution, as drafted by the Founders, designed a system that created a balance of power between state and national government. That original balance has eroded as the federal government has accumulated more and more power in Washington. The Repeal Amendment will help restore the spirit of the Tenth Amendment by strengthening the ability of States to protect those powers “reserved to states”—as outlined in the Bill of Rights.
This is a much more practical alternative to the nullification option proposed by Texas-based constitutional lawyer Jon Roland.
While I have not vetted the text of the proposed amendment or seen much analysis of its projected ability in enabling its objective, here is the wording submitted by Representative Bishop:
"Any provision of law or regulation of the United States may be repealed by the several states, and such repeal shall be effective when the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states approve resolutions for this purpose that particularly describe the same provision or provisions of law or regulation to be repealed."
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