You, as you often do, ignored a very important part of what I wrote which is that the individual states which created the federal government would act as the ultimate check on any excess of their creation.
You say the government shouldn't tell the states what to do, except why you think that it should. You say nothing in the Constitution is implied, except when you say those impled powers are there. You say the 10th Amendment reserves powers to the states, except when you decide it doesn't. And you say the states are sovereign, except when some states are more sovereign than others. You are nothing if not predictable.
Nowhere have I ever said any such thing as that except perhaps in your twisted mind!
There are NO implied powers in the Constitution period!
The ONLY powers the federal government has is those specifically delegated to it by the plain language of the Constitution!
The states are, each one individually, free and independent period and can do whatever they wish with the exception of those things expressly prohibited them by the plain language of the Constitution!
Do you really believe that the very same men who had suffered greatly to free themselves from a dictator would turn right around and create a government that was allowed to determine it's own limits?
So then the individual states which created the government could solve the entire issue by expelling Nevada and California against their will? Do away with Reid and Pelosi in one fell swoop?
Nowhere have I ever said any such thing as that except perhaps in your twisted mind!
You've said it time and again. You're claim you're against the government telling states what to do, except when you want the government to step in and do that very thing as in Kelo v New London. You say no powers are implied, except the implied power that allows for organizations like NASA and the Air Force to exist. You say that the 10th Amendment says that all powers not delegated to the U.S. or denied to the states by the Constitution are reserved to the states, but cannot point out where the power for the states to expel another state is denied them. You say that states are sovereign, except when they want to leave. Then they can repudiate obligations and steal whatever community property they can get their hands on and there is nothing the other states can do about it. If that is not an Orwellian 'all states are equal but some are more equal than others' view of the situation then I don't know what is. So see? You're a walking, talking mass of contradictions. Depends on how you feel at any given moment.