[highball]

And you must have missed that the 14th Amendment binds the states to the same restrictions as the federal government.

There's no Constitutional authority for a nanny state, whether that nanny state is being advocated by libs or "conservatives."

[VRWCmember]

And you must have missed that the 14th Amendment binds the states to the same restrictions as the federal government.

According to activist 20th century courts, but certainly not according to the debates when the 14th amendment was ratified and certainly not according to court decisions in the first several decades after the 14th amendment was passed.

[VRWCmember]

And you must have missed that the 14th Amendment binds the states to the same restrictions as the federal government.

If that is the case then the "reserved to the states" clause of the 10th amendment is effectively repealed. And for that matter the "or to the people" is effectively repealed because the people cannot through their legislatures enact the powers that are reserved to them as provided by the 10th amendment. Therefore under your view, the 14th amendment reworded the 10th amendment as follows:

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 Courts.