[D J White]

You are, of course, correct. I seem to have remembered a paraphrase of the X Amendment somewhere along the line. I apologize for the mis-characterization.

By the way, I enjoy your posts immensely. Keep up the good work.

Respectfully,

D J White

[Who is John Galt?]

Thank you for the reply. I serendipitously stumbled across Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton after I had posted what you call a 'paraphrase' of the Tenth Amendment (a link to the opinion, in which Mr. Justice Thomas was joined by the conservative members of the court, is posted at my FR homepage). Using many of the same references I employed (Mr. Madison's comments in Federalist No. 39, Article VII, etc.) the conservative justices reached an identical conclusion: "the people" referred to by the Tenth Amendment are the people of the individual States, NOT the people of the nation as a "whole"...