Cruz referred to the 10th Amendment as the “fundamental statement in the Bill of Rights that the powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people.”
“That means,” he added, “that as the Framers put it, the powers of the federal government are few and defined.”
Thanks again Tailgunner Joe.
You've got to remember that liberals will twist anything in the Constituiton to get what they want. That said, I think that the Founding States didn't word the 10th Amendment forcefully enough. PNGAP has more teeth imo.
Also, I'm sorry that freepers don't like that I don't necessarily trust Ted Cruz. In fact, with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Reagan, there is evidence that even Reagan was oblivious to Congress's Section 8-limited powers.
For example, while his heart was in the right place, Reagan had signed signed a bill which appropriated funds for things like job training regardless that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to do so.
In other words, Reagan needed to first rally Congress to propose a time-limited job training amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states had ratified Reagan's amendment then Congress would have had the constitutional authority that it needed to appropriate funds for such a purpose and Reagan would have been a greater hero than he already was.
Major legislation signed by President Reagan