[combat_boots]

ping to the JimRob, Kristinn DC We are Free People and want to stay that way mission.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180833/posts

[celtic gal]

Thank you for posting this defination. It has been mentioned but this makes the amendment clear in our collective memory banks.

[JudgemAll]

Problem is that porkulus bills nationalize the states, counties, cities and folkes getting some. Thus the conditions of the 10th amendment point toward a break up of the Union and dissolution of the US as we know it if combined with porkulus bills of the sort we just got.

[Frantzie]

How do we get this to all states? We need a kit for every state.

We never thought we could get the majority of states to approve CCW (concealed carry) laws and we did. Do we have 39 CCW states?

[jwparkerjr]

I read through the original post and although I agree with it 100 percent, I found it very long and confusing. Anything that's going to need public support has to be short and to the point. It has to be repeated over and over and over. And you have to have answers to the objections its detractors will throw at you.

More and more citizens, and non-citizens for that matter, are slopping at the public trough. We banter around the fact that nearly half of our voting population pays no taxes. There is a point at which that number will have grown large enough that it will sink us.

Look at the new law, SCHIP. Families with an income of $80,000 are going to be buying medical insurance using a subsidy from the federal government. President Bush vetoed this bill repeatedly when its cost was projected at $35 billion. The cost of the bill signed this week by Obama is over $200 billion dollars! And that's IN ADDITION to the $900 billion we're getting ready to pass this week.

[RFEngineer]

The 10th Amendment has been on the decline ever since the Civil War answered the argument about state’s rights to secede.

It will probably take something equally traumatic to the nation to reverse the decline of the 10th Amendment, which is now all but irrelevant.

One can expect a strong response from the federal bureaucracy, up to and including force to keep states from assuming the powers that are rightfully theirs under the Constitution.

However, the upside of the economic mess we are in is that the feds are flat broke and simply don’t realize it yet. This will be an opportunity for states to increase their constitutional role.

Good luck, fellas.

[MosesKnows]

the U.S. government has only the powers delegated to it by the Constitution of the United States

The words of the 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.
can be best understood after a thorough understanding of Article 1, Section 1.

Article. 1. Section. 1. of the United States Constitution :

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.

Congress can only write legislation concerning issues within their herein granted constitutional powers. Article. 1. Section. 8. list their herein granted powers.

The most important point to keep in focus that Congress has only these powers and no others. A power not herein granted does not exist. In other words, if the Constitution does not say Congress can then Congress can’t.

This is worth reviewing because some citizens and even some representative believe that if the Constitution doesn’t say Congress can’t then they can. They are mistaken.

This mistaken belief may have its roots in the Bill of Rights, which prohibits government legislation in specific areas. The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the citizen. The Bill of Rights recognizes certain citizen rights as inherent and protects these inherent rights from government legislative interference. In this instance, the Constitution does tell Congress what they cannot do.

This overall understanding is necessary for a correct appreciation of the power of the 10th Amendment.

An amendment, such as the 18th Amendment can add a new herein granted power. Congress cannot write legislation prohibiting flag burning or define marriage without adding new “herein granted powers”. The correct way to add a new “herein granted power” is to amend the Constitution. The incorrect way is to re-interpret the Constitution. The amendment itself is not a law; the amendment adds the power allowing Congress to write and enforce a law.

[ChrisInAR]

AMEN!

Now only if the GOP & its leadership could begin to take this Amendment seriously....fat chance, however, especially when they regain control of Congress!