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The Tenth amendment makes it clear some powers cannot be reassumed: "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." Thus certain powers (most of the important ones) CANNOT be "reserved" to the States. ONLY the remnant of powers which were not delegated nor prohibited are reserved. ONLY undelegated and non-prohibited are left to the States. My prior statements are affirmed and supported.

I don't know about your education, but your reading COMPREHENSION is 0.

For example, you write, 'The Tenth amendment makes it clear some powers cannot be reassumed:' but you conclusion is a fallacy - the 10th simply delineates the proper sphere of authority - it is positively silent on PROHIBITING resumption. It states that the federal powers were DELEGATED by the states (so who is the SOVEREIGN????????).

"The powers not delegated [all unenumerated powers, note that delegated is NOT surrendered]
to the United [united - MORE than a single entity]
States [PLURAL, not singular]
by the Constitution, [the ENUMERATED powers delegated from the SOVEREIGNS - the STATES to the federal government]
NOR PROHIBITED BY IT [the ENUMERATED powers not prohibited within the Constitution]
TO THE STATES, [again, PLURAL]
are reserved to the States respectively, [once again PLURAL, the corporate powers exercised by states are reserved to states respectively (ratifying)]
or to the people [individual rights not prohibited are reserved to INDIVIDUALS]."

The sovereigns - the people within multiple states - INDIVIDUALLY - delegated powers to the federal government. ALL powers not delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, AND ALL those corporate/individual powers not prohibited to the states/individuals are retained by the states/individuals.

It's really simple.

You completely distort what is said in the amendment.

It does NOT say any powers were delegated by states to the federal government. It is clear from the discerning and honest that the delegation of all political power comes from the PEOPLE including that delegated to the states.

The rest of your butchery does not refute anything I said since it is all based upon the fallacy that States had ever been fully sovereign. Any sovereignty they had came ONLY as a result of the UNION which all the Founders knew and understood. It was only the half-assed Slaver "statesmen" who managed to forget this.

Our Constitution was explicitly written to underscore the necessity of UNION and to enhance and protect it. That magnificent paean to UNION, the Federalist Papers, underscores this in numerous places. "...the utility of UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people of every State, and one, which it may be imagined, has no adversaries." FP-1
"It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under ONE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies... " FP 2 Jay has NO doubt about the answer as he continues "It has until lately been a received and UNCONTRADICTED opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to THAT OBJECT." "...Providence has been pleased to give this ONE connected country to ONE UNITED PEOPLE....This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, UNITED to each other by the strongest of ties, SHOULD NEVER BE SPLIT INTO A NUMBER OF UNSOCIAL, JEALOUS, AND ALIEN SOVEREIGNTIES....As a NATION we have vanquished our common enemies; as a NATION we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states....A strong sense of the value and blessings of UNION induced the PEOPLE, at a very early period to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it....[the failure of that government did not dissuade the PEOPLE from UNION but this ]"intelligent PEOPLE perceived and regretted these defects. Still continuing no less attached to UNION than enamored of liberty...observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being persuaded that ample security for both could ONLY be found in a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT more wisely framed..." [by removing MORE sovereignty from the states]

Jay also reminds his reader "It is worthy of remark that not only the first, but EVERY succeeding Congress, as well as the late convention, have INVARIABLY joined with the PEOPLE in thinking that the prosperity of AMERICA depended on its UNION. To preserve and perpetuate it was THE GREAT OBJECT of the PEOPLE in forming that convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which the convention has advised them to adopt." His final words in FR 2 should have been remembered by the Traitors of 1860 "...whenever the dissolution of the Union arrives, AMERICA will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet 'FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS.'"

Thanks to the incredible leadership of Abe Lincoln that greatness was not allowed to be destroyed and the Traitorous scum leading the RAT Rebellion were defeated leading to the rise of the greatest Nation in the history of the world.