snowbear37 wrote:
I think it's more an issue of states' rights vs. federal rights.
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.[1] The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people.
Unfortunately, many of the states' rights as well as the peoples' rights have been usurped by the Federal government. In many cases, because some of these rights are said to be part of the "commerce clause" (which in some cases, is a real "stretch").
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Progressives have used that stretched Commerce Clause and a number of states have already questioned their crap. Of course, progressives want pretty much to do away with the 10th Amendment as soon as possible. That would include the whole Constitution, too.