The extremist Republicans believe deeply The Tenth Amendment actually RESTRICTS the federal government to innumerated powers ONLY under this amendment. It is a regime belief, not sincerely a political party. Policital Parties are not as contracted in their views as the RNC has become. I sincerely believe it is a regime and not a political party in the context of its growing extremism. They want to restrict freedoms of citizens, not expand them. That is not a democracy whereby everyone is treated equally. It is a regime.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
It is where the Commerce Clause lives. It is also viewed by the Republicans as the most important amendment to the Constitution. The Republicans believe it is the one place they can covet as a righteousness to their view of the world. The Tenth Amendment has been USED on many occassion to extert financial prowess over the federal government. The Robert's Court enjoys this amendment far more than they should. The Tenth Amendment was never intended to 'weigh' the federal powers in less capacity than state powers, but, it has been used that way especially with this court. I sincerely believe the Democrats need to be well versed in the PROPER application of this amendment and seek to legislate to faciliate the effectiveness of it. I believe its powers have been abused by The Robert's Court.
"...There is nothing in the history (click title to entry - thank you) of its adoption to suggest that it was more than declaratory of the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment or that its purpose was other than to allay fears that the new national government might seek to exercise powers not granted, and that the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers...."
This evening has been a bit different, but, seimic activity doesn't happen everyday in relation to hydraulic fracturing.
Until later...
