Can the 10th Amendment save us?

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Can the 10th Amendment save us?
It's time to restore Framers' vision of limited government
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
By Cal Thomas

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

The Framers created a limited government, thus ensuring that individuals would have the opportunity to become all that their talents and persistence would allow. The left has put aside the original Constitution in favor of a "living document" that they believe allows them to do whatever they want and demand more tax dollars with which to do it.

Can they be stopped? Some constitutional scholars think the 10th Amendment offers the best opportunity. The 10th Amendment states: "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."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...dment-save-us/

Buy more ammo.

"Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them, and who want their country returned to its founding principles, must exercise that power before it is taken from them. The 10th Amendment is one place to begin. The streets are another. It worked for the left."

[westtexasmom]

Gee you mean we can actually pull out that document and use it? What a novel idea!!!

[Texas Streak]

Gee you mean we can actually pull out that document and use it? What a novel idea!!!

They have been using it since 20Jan09, just not for the intended purpose.

[Macadoo]

The irony is that the 'Commerce Clause' has been so perverted during the last hundred years that any Conservative jurist that evinces interest in getting back to the original intent of the 10th Amendment is called a 'activist judge' by the left.

[bob]

It's like the invisible amendment. I wish someone would could get a good 10th amendment case to the supreme court.

[MAVERICK]

They have been using it since 20Jan09, just not for the intended purpose.

and it was thrown out 20Jan00 ....

[Texas Streak]

For you Mav!!

[bob]

and it was thrown out 20Jan00 ....

The tenth amendment does not give the states the right to participate in voter fraud.