Here is how a lot of us read the 10th Ammendment..in South Carolina.
Just doing our duty, so to speak.
10th Ammendment:
“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 !!(or)..is the BIG word here)!!! .....................to....... the......... people.”
10th amendment doesn’t just protect State/local sovereignty but also individual sovereingty that is not dependent on the State and local government.
(( to the States respectively, or to the people.))
OR = We the people!!
YOU are authorized by the Constitution, to hold the government accountable if the State/local governments do not.
This is overlooked sometimes..
Small quibble on a point I come across often; you and others may actually see it differently. If it is more or less universally agreed as to meaning, it's something we need to drive home again and again, that is, "The People" and "The States" retained those rights as creators, note that, CREATORS of the United States and grantors of specific and delineated rights/duties to the "general" government - the newly established United States.
I think the problem(if you will) is that most people have been led to believe, or otherwise reached the conclusion the feral government predated its creation by the people and the states. The sovereign people and the states were here first. In particular the 9th and 10 Amendments to the Constitution say this in very plain language. Which brings me to an aside, it seems the Constitution was written in a way that it doesn't require $500/hr attorneys or Constitutional scholars to understand it as "they" would have us believe.
The overriding intent as I read it in the Constitution and certainly the Bill of Rights is that all powers of the general government flow from the people and the states via the Constitution. The feral government is not authorized to "grant" any governmental powers to the people or the states, who retain those rights - and coincidentally, the duties. If "We the People" through our agents, the States, don't exercise our duties and responsibilities as sovereigns, we deserve what befalls us.
Which gives rise to another observation, there are quite a few people on this very forum, the premier conservative bastion on the web(which I believe BTW), that aren't altogether sure they want to exert the due diligence required to recover their duties and responsibilities. It takes on the appearance of work. Some are scared. Some, even here are beholdened to the nanny state for their piece of mind. A few are just keyboard commandos. Whatever, it has always been so...
Restoring our Republic is serious business. For various and sundry reasons, others don't see it that way. The means and methods conservatives could employ in this effort probably run the gamut. It's my humble opinion that acting through our individual States may in all liklihood be our last shot at passing on a nation to our grandchildren that we could be proud to take credit for. Otherwise, Ronald Reagan's thoughts come to mind, "We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness."
Regards,