[DaveyB]

Was the 10th Amendment repealed?

[Cen-Tejas]

Thanks!

I was fixing to raise the same point!

Why is the legal argument not a 10th Ammendment one?

[Jacquerie]

No amendment, clause etc. . . is self enforcing. An actual institution must do the heavy lifting.

The 10A merely stated a truth. The states as independent countries relinquished certain powers to the government of their creation, most notably those in Article I Section 10. They obviously kept that which they didn't give away.

The states would have given away very little, had the constitution not provided for a senate of the states. The senate was the institution to enforce the 10th.

<>Was the 10th Amendment repealed?<>

The 17A effectively repealed the 10A.