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States Rights?

"The powers not [expressly] delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people." Now from where does the delegation of these powers proceed? As a gift from the states to the federal government? Clearly not. The powers are reserved BY THE US CONSTITUTION ITSELF.

And who determines exactly what these powers are and how they are wielded? Congress wields the power to write laws and apportion funds for their execution, and the judicial branch of the federal government the power to decide on the constitutionality of those laws, including our Bill of Rights. States do not get the chance to decide which laws or treaties or elections they will obey and which they won't--neither nullification nor secession is part of their limited, constitutionally granted powers. Anti-federalists who would like to squelch federal powers not "expressly" mentioned in the Constitution were defeated in that attempt before the Tenth Amendment was ever ratified. But why worry about the ballot when you can resort to the bullet.

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