Quote Originally Posted by total relism View Post
I did and you ignored the founders view and Madison. I shall repost sir.

In federalist #39 James Madison “The father of the constitution” said the constitution was ratified by the people “Not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent states to which they respectively belong”

it seems your running out of support for your case, you cannot provide any just claims. Here is the 10th

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.
Wrong again. If you read other writings of Madison, such at least as have been provided here, then you would at least have the good grace to be confused. But there is no contradiction, as the ratification of the Constitution to united the States under one sovereign government must of course take place by the division into the peoples of the respective states, since that is the very thing the Constitution seeks to displace. Once a State has ratified the Constitution, it has given in its sovereignty,countenanced precisely because the transfer of sovereignty does not also abrogate the individual powers that can be exercised by a state for the sake of its own government. That's where the 10th Amendment is relevant.

The Tenth Amendment is a specification of the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, affirming that the states have in their power that which is not circumscribed by the Constitution while powers not directly provided for the Federal government must be individually expressed and expanded within the limits of the legislature. It reminds the states that their own scope is limited by the Constitution, and describes what it takes for the federal government to take new powers. It does not explicitly circumscribe any current or future powers of the federal government, which is what the Articles of Confederation did.