>>It was the only one of 11 states that so stated that principle.
Do you believe the remaining 10 were perhaps too ignorant to understand the concept of retained rights, or that it would have been redundant to mention it since South Carolina’s declaration had already made it crystal clear to those not well-versed in the constitution?
Let me ask another way: do you believe a constitutional power no longer exists if it is not declared?
Mr. Kalamata
You claimed several of the seceding states cited the 10th Amendment as part of their justification for secession. I pointed out that was not the case. Only South Carolina cited the 10th as one of the reasons for it actions.
That has nothing to do with a constitutional powers, merely that the 10th was not the crux of the arguments that the seceding states chose expound on in their defense of secession.