From George Washington's Farewell Address
"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield. "
If all that is necessary for the federal government to assume and exercise a power is for Congress to pass a law and delegate the exercise of that power, what is the purpose of the process of amendment?
You know the answer to that.
Amendments clarify and guide the Fed gov. They are essentially a restriction or negative right, as some call it.
For example...If you were to submit to congress a grievance through your representative that tells Congress that it no longer has any power over government agencies, ie: creation and oversight. And the people approve that, then that's what happens.
So agencies then would be the sole responsibility of the executive branch and oversight would be from the courts.
Just a stupid example for you.
Currently, Congress is the only branch with oversight of fed agencies.
To change how MJ is handled and viewed by the agencies of government you must petition congress to reset the way in which agencies deal with it, and do this through their oversight responsibility. This could happen if, there is strong enough group of people with enough political power to make this happen.
I would think it unlikely, as Congress pretty much punts the ball to the agencies, but anything is possible.
Something I seem to be having difficulty explaining to you, or you simply don’t want to understand it.
Congress is you.
All power is given to congress by you.
The 10th amendment does not restrict Congress from making law, or creating agencies to enforce it. Ceding responsibility is also in their ability to do, either through action or inaction.
If the 10th restricted Congress in the way you apparently think it does, then congress would be no more than a social club, with a bar. “how ya doin Ohio!, fine said Nebraska, How’s the kids...”
In other words, they would be useless...