[Amendment10]

If the federal government was actually respecting its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and associateld limited power to appropriate taxes as the Founding States had intended, then most citizens would probably have to guess who the current president is.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

[Paladin2]

Hunh, Marshall Law was not all bad...