The Tenth Amendment should have been the first.
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The 16th, 17th, and 19th, should never have been.
"The Tenth Amendment should have been the first. ..."
I agree 100%.
As a side note to your insight about the 10th Amendment (10A) being 1st Amendment (1A), please consider the following.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote about 1A on one occasion, he first borrowed wording from 10A to introduce 1A.
"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."
"1st 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."
“3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed; …” —Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
The problem concerning both 1&2A now is that they often seem to be the totality of the Constitution for many Constitution-challenged patriots, patriots themselves inadvertently nullifying 10A imo.
More specifically about “forgotten” 10A, we probably wouldn't be oppressed under the boots of the unconstitutionally big federal government like we are now if Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters better understood that the states reserved the lion's share of "government" power to serve the people to the states when the Founding States constitutionally divided federal and state government powers.
In other words, the constitutional division of federal and state government powers isn't what you would call "equal" or "fair" at all, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention intending for the feds to play a relatively minor role in our peacetime daily lives imo.
In fact, arguably one of the very few "significant" powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds to dictate domestic policy is to run the U.S. Mail Service.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had emphasized that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
The bottom line is that most federal domestic policy now is based on stolen state powers imo.
The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government is the following imo.
Patriots need to start supporting their Trump-endorsed candidate state lawmakers ASAP to peacefully stop the unconstitutionally big government in its tracks by leading ALL the states to effectively “secede” from the corrupt federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Corrections, insights welcome.