Could be from this outdated and ignored relic from the pre-New Deal era--
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.
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.
Aha! The 10th Amendment from the Bill of Rights. I thought we'd done away with that one. It's certain that we've not followed to limit the ever-expanding Federal Government since, at least, the New Deal, as you say.
My old man, a lawyer, said that it was the very tenuous logic of enforcing the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments (freeing the Slaves and then guaranteeing their Civil Rights) that utterly destroyed the last vestiges of States Rights.