[Empire_of_Liberty]

Your appreciation of “skill” and mine differ.

The excerpts you chose really ARE words chosen at random. Article IV, as written, makes sense. The terms “Property” and “Territory” used in it have a meaning which you have twistedly taken out of context to write your own story.

Amendment X, however, stands clearly as a capstone to limit the powers of the Government being created to what is described in the rest of the document. There is no Welfare Department, Waste-Management truck, or Unicorn-Ranch provided for in these described powers. You may wish it, but there is probably a reason it isn’t there, and only your “skilled” twisting of text can imagine that it is.

[itsahoot]

Amendment X was abrogated before the ink was dry on the Constitution. The Constitution is the second most important document in history devised and written by some of the wisest men in History but it has absolutely no power over dishonest perverted politicians. If it did then we would not be in the current mess.

We have Constitutionalist here arguing that Trump must obey the Constitution 110% while the ones that defiled it did not. My opinion? That which was unconstitutionally put into place likely can not be ripped out Constitutionally. We need a reset.

Diversity leads to perversity, perversity leads to tyranny.

[Brian Griffin]

Amendment X actually doesn’t impact federal power:

“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.”

Amendment X makes the most of the Bill of Rights binding on the States and federally recognizes that States, except for the Federal Constitutional limits, have power over their people.

The Congress has the “power” to tax and the “power” to dispose of the money that has become the property of the United States.

dispose: “to transfer to the control of another”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dispose

dispose: “get rid of by throwing away or giving or selling to someone else”

Bing

dispose: “To give or transfer to someone else, especially permanently”

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dispose

Congress didn’t have the ability to dispose of much money until Amendment XVI was added. Congress was previously limited in direct taxation by the ability of people in the poorest state to pay.

The “progressives” that created Amendment XVI knew what it was for.

[Brian Griffin]

“The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto 1848 by Karl Heinrich Marx

“’2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.’

“The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913 (which some scholars maintain was never properly ratified), and various State income taxes, established this major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. These taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy....”

http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html