[Non-Sequitur]

I recognize the language of the Tenth Amendment as readily as you...

Of course you do.

...and the only parties doing any "forbidding" are the States themselves...

"...or prohibited by it to the States...." Sure sounds like it's the Constitution doing the forbidding.

The original language of Articles I and IV is much more expressive of original intent...."

Of course it is.

[lentulusgracchus]

"...or prohibited by it to the States...." Sure sounds like it's the Constitution doing the forbidding.

So who owns the Constitution, Mr. Would-Be Forbidder?

Remember, we had that conversation. Who is the Sovereign, the absolute Lord and Master of the United States of America?

Who owns America? Who gets the last "yes" and "no"?