[dragonwriter]

> If the People want to set aside the Constitution, they must do the hard work of convincing enough people in enough states to do it lawfully.

No, they don't.

They just need to obey a government that ignores its Constitutional bounda.

> Otherwise it's settled with might makes right.

It's always settled that way. Legality isn't a substitute for might makes right, it is, a social mechanism for guiding where the “might” ends up. But if the people—who ultimately, are the muscles of the might—decide not to care about legality, than it doesn't matter any more. Words written on paper are not self enforcing.