The 10th amendment is completely worthless. All it does is say what happens to powers NOT delegated to the national government. But that's not the problem.
The problem is WHAT powers ARE delegated. The 10th does absolutely nothing to clarify or limit what falls into that category. It remains a question for the national branches to determine for themselves, with the judiciary getting the last word.
10th amendment arguments therefore become nullification arguments. The truth is, the states gave up true sovereignty when they ratified the Constitution. They became mere agencies of the national government. Or as James Madison put it:
Conceiving that an individual independence of the States is utterly irreconcileable with their aggregate sovereignty; and that a consolidation of the whole into one simple republic would be as inexpedient as it is unattainable, I have sought for some middle ground, which may at once support a due supremacy of the national authority, and not exclude the local authorities wherever they can be subordinately useful."Letter to G. Washington, April 16 1787
The author of this article must be doing drugs. Perry is a pure opportunist, and his taxing and spending, rescue fantasies (Gardasil), refusal to crack down on illegals, and cowardice (”hate crime” legislation) make him unfit for office.
Rick Perry is not an uber-conservative, he sometimes talks like one. I guess that is all it takes these days.
Perry is doing good on this score, but he has to do better keeping an eye on Austin, the RINOs anti-Tea Party redistricting disaster, and their idiotic idea for a California style job killing business tax!
Read the whole thing...great article.
Perry sometimes doesn’t get the conservative credit he deserves.