Point that out the next time a liberal ask you to show them where in the constitution it prohibits government from legislating marriage, flag burning, abortion, or medicine. The founders limited the power of government by not granting powers, not by prohibiting powers.
Article 1. Section 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
The founders enumerated the Powers herein granted in Section 8. The only powers Congress has are the listed powers. None of the enumerated powers allows Congress to legislate marriage, flag burning, abortion, or medicine. It is not a function of what power the Constitution prohibited; it is a function of what power the Constitution granted.
This illustrates the huge power of the 10th amendment, which essentially says, if we forgot anything you can’t do that either.
10th Amendment
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.
The Constitution is not about the people. The Constitution is about how the government must function within the herein granted powers. The government is not constitutionally empowered to feed, shelter, clothe, or educate the people.
The reason I treat this so seriously is that America has an administration with the socialist agenda of transforming America into a Democracy. The fact that the Constitution guarantees every state a Republican form of government and that our rights came from our creator and not from government are being undermined. This administration attempts to create a Democracy where none existed. I recommend this effort be thwarted at every opportunity.