[WhiskeyPapa]

that Constitution also specified the limited powers of the federal government.

It also put severe restrictions on the states -- no coining money and so forth.

What the Constitution also says is that the laws passed in pursuance are the supreme law of the land.

The 9th and tenth amendments don't even come into play.

Walt

[SevenDaysInMay]

Slooch. I left out the L. The salt pork fat and flour paste roasted wound around one's bayonnet. My coffee is better than their cracked dry bean flavored thin mud morning drink. Anything to get the slooch down. Clay in the belly helped with dysentery's bloody flux.

Several states' limits, as members of the Union, yes. BUT SILENT as to states rights to leave. That which is not specifically empowering to the federal government, is reserved to the people or the several states. Blackrobes mde up self-serving bench law as accomplisces to the power structure's expanding needs.

Lincoln and his gang seized control, no matter what the Constitution allowed. Ending slavery was not part of that battle plan in 1862.

After 1961's invasion of Virginia with Lincoln's early usurpations and violations of the Constitution, I would have carried the fight round into D.C., but I am a Texan who calls war, War.

Many of the very best in North America died trying to defend their liberty against a federal government Hell bent on tyrrany and killing because they could.