[An.American.Expatriate]

This is not a catch all for everything under the sun.

- Uh, yes it IS!

Any power not granted to the federal government WAS NOT GRANTED!

All of these things (yes even welfare) are talked about by the founding fathers.

Welfare of whom?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Any power not granted to the federal government WAS NOT GRANTED!"

Again, can you show me where the founders thought that secession was a power that the states had and retained independent of the federal government. They never talked about secession to my knowledge. So you are saying that this "power" of secession was something that the founders reserved to the states when they had never thought this "power" up to begin with. They allowed that you could rebell through the Declaration of Indepedence. The Southern states tried that and lost. Get over it.