In general you are correct, but it didn't take an Amendment to do that. The Constitution specifically limits the laws the fed can pass. How they have gotten around this is claiming the laws that are passed go to regulate interstate trade.
If you read Article 1 Section 8, you will the Grants of Power. These are the things Congress has the right to do. All laws must fall into these categories, or any others that may have been created via Amendment. > -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Heald [mailto:healdt@;dsmail.state.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:09 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: How free are we? > > I am a constitution freak, I pretty much follow the tenth, anything not > mentioned in the constitution specifically, falls to the state or the > people. > > Now if you follow that line of reasoning I would say probably 90% of our > federal government violates the letter and the intent of the constitution. > > Now I am not saying I don't think we need SOME of the government, just > that I wish that we had used the amendment process rater than legislating > blindly over what is supposed to be our highest law. > > Tim > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
