One of the greatest strengths of our system of government is our Bill of Rights. The first 10 Amendments limit the power of the government. Though it is not perfect, this system has kept government in check, in several key spheres. The 10th Amendment is succinct, yet powerful. It reads:
“The powers not 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.”
Sadly, the 10th Amendment has been degraded in the past 50 years by power-hungry statists. The American people are now over-taxed and over-regulated. The regulations penned by Congress are bad enough, but those emanating from international treaties, presidential executive orders, and decrees from unelected bureaucrats have become odious. If our founding fathers were alive to see just how strong the Federal government has become, and how it encroaches into so many aspects of our lives, they would be horrified. Even the most strident Federalist of the 1780s would be shocked to see just how arbitrary and despotic our national government has become. The advent of the “alphabet soup” agencies since the 1930s has radically centralized the government’s power and subverted the rights of the states, and the rights of the citizenry.Continue reading“Reviving The Moribund 10th Amendment”