Posted by Bob on 8/31/2007, 5:22 am, in reply to "Re: Individualism" The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people. While this does not absolutely settle every dispute, it certainly sets a benchmark, an undergirding principle, that is honored mostly in the breach. The entire purpose of the Bill of Rights, ten amendments all told, is to protect individuals from the power of government. Indeed, the Constitution was signed by many of its framers ONLY on the promise that such a bill of rights would be forthcoming. (The promise was dutifully kept.) In other words, there was a recognition that the main body of the Constitution might be interpreted to give the federal government too many powers, the people too few. The Bill of Rights remedied that deficiency. In effect, what the Tenth Amendment says is that, if there is a doubt concerning whether a particular power belongs to the federal government, the states, or the people, that doubt redounds to the favor of the states and the people, NOT to the federal government. Unfortunately, the First and Tenth Amendments are under attack from the left.
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The Tenth Amendment is quite clear:
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