[all the best]

Lawyers, judges, and federal politicians are not going to save you from enormous deficits and every other symptom of Statism. Even getting state officials to back you up is going to be a heavy lift. It’s time for the Tea Parties to do what they do best and apply pressure, just not at the national level but the state and local level. AND they are going to have to do it in every state and know when the flotilla is ready to embark on its march to DC to take this country back.

[ntmxx]

Until the American citizenry decides to not be nullified by voting against all political class corruption; this will continue.

[Talisker]

The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not define the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government. I hear this often, and am guilty of repeating it myself on occasion.

What?! Why would anyone look to the 10th Amendment to define the total scope of federal power? If the 10th could do that, what would the rest of the Constitution discuss?

Bah.

[Paine in the Neck]

[phockthis]

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[Skepolitic]

If the Congress can treat the Constitution as though it authorizes any legislation that it deems necessary and proper and the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution finds no fault in that, the 9th and 10th Amendments simply had no purpose in the first place.

At one time, perhaps, the Constitution effectively limited the size and scope and the Federal government. Sadly, recent history confirms Rothbard’s assessment: “the Constitution has proved to be an instrument for ratifying the expansion of State power rather than the opposite. As Calhoun saw, any written limits that leave it to government to interpret its own powers are bound to be interpreted as sanctions for expanding and not binding those powers. In a profound sense, the idea of binding down power with the chains of a written constitution has proved to be a noble experiment that failed. The idea of a strictly limited government has proved to be Utopian; some other, more radical means must be found to prevent the growth of the aggressive State.”

[marsh2]

The Tenth Amendment does confirm, affirm, state -choose your verb – that however one defines the “scope of federal power,” those powers falling outside that definition are reserved to the states, period, end of story.

Wrong. You omitted the reservation at the end "or to the People." This is a most important clause. The People reserved authority that they did not delegate. There is also a huge battle with the States (California) concerning the exercise of abusive regulatory authority way above and beyond the limits of protecting general public safety from substantial injury to health, safety peace and morals.

[Macoozie]

FTA- “ . . . an implicit indication of where the problem lies and needs to be fixed.”

The Constitution is not the problem. Returning to a constitutional government is the solution.
The problem is “We the People”. The US Constitution was intended for a morally bound citizenry. Our current population of Looters, leeches and Political Pros-ti-tutes can never be happy living under such law.

Turn off the tax-spigot to the government and let it all wither on the vine. Stop demanding others pay for you, your chidren’s schools, your bloated public “servant” tax-supported beureaucracy.