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.
As the article points out... there is no "specifically" or "expressly" written into that amendment. That word was used in the Articles of Confederation, but were INTENTIONALLY left out of the Constitution. The article not only explaines that, but also goes into detail on why, and how, and what the author of that amendment thought about limiting the federal government:
When Representative Thomas Tucker of South Carolina moved to insert the word "expressly" into what became the Tenth Amendment, Madison (in an eyewitness account reprinted in The Complete Bill of Rights, edited by Neil Cogan) "[o]bjected to this amendment, because it was impossible to confine a government to the exercise of express powers, there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the constitution descended to recount every minutiae. He [Madison] remembered the word 'expressly' had been moved in the convention of Virginia, by the opponents to the ratification, and after full and fair discussion was given up by them, and the system allowed to retain its present form." Tucker's amendment was voted down.
But lets get to the even bigger picture here of what's really going on. Read the 10th again, and note the last 4 words: "or to the people." Some times when 10th'ers talk about the encroach of the federal government onto the states, what it is is they don't wan't the feds telling them they can't use tyranny of the majority to strip away peoples rights.... such as with same sex marriage. The Supreme Court didn't find a "new" right for people, but it reaffirmed that marriage to the person of your choice is a fundamental right, a right OF THE PEOPLE, and that states could not curtail those rights through tyranny of the majority.
States rights people are not fighting for people to have more rights, or even equal rights... they're fighting to let states be allowed to be tyrants.
....establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity....
And for your notion that "general welfare" and defence" are the only two things important, and for some inexplicable reason they're importance is manifest by where they fall in that line (3rd and 4th out of 5 things) outright ignores everything else in that line, and , well, i seriously cannot think of a rational reason for such a suggestion. You could just as easily say that "establish justice" and "insure domestic tranquility" are the only two that matter because they were written next to each other, and they fall at #1 and #2.... it's a stupid argument on it's face.
On a last note, maybe you should read you're 1828 definition of welfare again;
1. Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons.
A UBI would actually be pretty much a requirement to fulfilling that definition, as well as guaranteed health care.
Progressives were the ones that abolished slavery. Progressives passed the Civil Rights Act. Conservatives have always been the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
I get it. People like you are so fucking stupid that if someone like Trump shit on a plate and gave it to you telling you it's the best steak ever, you'd eat it, love it, and praise it as the best steak ever for the rest of your life. The early Republican party was the progressives, the Democrats were the rural conservatives. Either you actually are that fucking stupid, or you're a lying piece of shit. Which is it?
Why is it that people use one line of the Constitution to ignore EVERYTHING else in the Constitution? Is it you can't read anything more than 15-20 words without your brain shutting down?
Abbreviated for the stupid: US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States....
....To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Nah, -1 probably because you're a worthless sack of shit. Conservatives already do take what's not theirs.... most all red states are welfare states, while blue states have to pay more to help the inbred, redneck, red state welfare queens.
Then i'm sure you won't be taking your social security check to the bank, but returning it to the government. You can stop drinking water that someone else paid to have cleaned, air that other people paid to have cleaned, roads that other people paid to have laid down, and maybe you shouldn't be calling the police next time you feel yourself in danger, or the fire department if your house catches fire, or go to the hospital unless you have the money to pay for everything they charge.
Society itself is a form of socialism, it's just some stupider than fuck people are too fucking stupid to understand that.
I would love to see the thoroughly vetted, peer reviewed study that says people only fall into one, or the other, of those two categories. I get it, though.. you want to make out both sides being equally bad... but they're not, and anyone paying attention understands that.
Maybe you should ask all the neo-nazi's who voted for Trump. They're pretty much as conservative right-wing as you can get, and unlike other republicans, they know and promote that they're fascist fucks.
They may not be the greatest at this point, but intentionally making them worse is just fucking stupider than shit.... the level of stupider than shit you seem to spout pretty much all the time. I really do not understand if you hate this country so much, what the fuck are you still doing here?
It was added to the pledge by religious fucking liars to try to separate (even more) the people of the US and the USSR. Why is it conservative religious pieces of shit are such lying fuckwads?
Teaching that whatever version of "creationism" the no-nut evangelicals came up with this week is as valid as the theory of natural selection makes people stupider than rocks.... and almost as stupid as you. We should be hefting an added tax on all religious organizations to pay for all the care the fucking idiots they're producing from this bullshit are going to need because they won't even be able to compete with a fucking half blind pet monkey from Vietnam.
That you're a fucking idiot. No, wait... that's been that way since you shoved your head up your ass about the time you hit puberty. You're a fucking moron is you think ignorance and stupidity lead to problem solving and innovation.... all it leads to is more fucking stupidity.
If you can pull your head out of your ass long enough to read, and understand, this... then do so; and quit being a gullible fucking idiot. Why are conservatives such worthless fucking liars all the fucking time?
The constitution also states we should only have a standing army during an invasion or insurrection.... but never lasting more than 2 years. It says nothing about an Air Force. It does say a standing Navy, but not a separate Marine Corp. So what you're saying is, we need to disband the entire Army (they've been active more than 2 years now), remove all our military members from all other countries, eliminate all of our Air Force, and move the Marines back into the Navy's chain of command.
OR, are you saying, you don't even know what's in the Constitution, but you just have to bring it up to try to use it's authority to make your ignorance seem useful?
AND THEN there's the fact that nuclear power, as a percentage of energy production has been level for some time (in the US), while solar and wind (you know, the ones that don't cause radioactive wastelands, or materials that have to be sequestered for centuries) are climbing rapidly.
The problem is not that democrats oppose nuclear, it's that republicans are stuck in the 70's and can't pull their heads out of their ass to see the future... and it's not nuclear.
As for genetic crops... i don't give a crap one way or the other, nor animals... although some on the republican-fake-christian side seem to think messing with animals is somehow going against God. And for medicine? Oh yeh, if we could only cure cancer..... or if we could cure 70% of a cancar with a simple vaccine... then the republican-fake-christains will be against it because they have shit for brains.
Space travel? Now you are truly just being a fucking idiot. You're a conservative asswipe who's trying to disassociate from all the stupidity of the people you agree with because deep down you know they're fucking idiots, and by extension, so are you.
Again, you're a fucking conspiracy theory twat. You lying sacks of shit are the prob;lem in this country.... you're too fucking stupid to learn anything, and you're completely divorced from reality... yet you keep flapping your mouth, spewing out more lies. What worthless examples of humanity you are.
Democrats understand not to be gullible little idiots like republicans are. You fucking conservatives are nothing more than enemies of the United States.
Well, you also have to give a little credit to some of the post-war people who understood that one of the lead-up problems to WW2 was the draconian measures we forced onto Germany after WW1. At least they were smart enough to try something different to produce a better results. Still not really compassion... but we have a lot of mentally challenged people here in the US who can't be bothered to actually learn what a word means before using it..... or learn anything else, for that matter.
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Face it, you're a fucking idiot who is so gullible you believed everything the rat bastard republicans said. Why is it you conservatives lie so fucking much? Have you no integrity or morals?
No. It's been undermined before it even passed by worthless, fucking greedy, self serving, anti-American, anti-Christian republicans. Pull your head out of your ass and check out reality for once in your life.
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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.
As the article points out... there is no "specifically" or "expressly" written into that amendment. That word was used in the Articles of Confederation, but were INTENTIONALLY left out of the Constitution. The article not only explaines that, but also goes into detail on why, and how, and what the author of that amendment thought about limiting the federal government:
When Representative Thomas Tucker of South Carolina moved to insert the word "expressly" into what became the Tenth Amendment, Madison (in an eyewitness account reprinted in The Complete Bill of Rights, edited by Neil Cogan) "[o]bjected to this amendment, because it was impossible to confine a government to the exercise of express powers, there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the constitution descended to recount every minutiae. He [Madison] remembered the word 'expressly' had been moved in the convention of Virginia, by the opponents to the ratification, and after full and fair discussion was given up by them, and the system allowed to retain its present form." Tucker's amendment was voted down.
But lets get to the even bigger picture here of what's really going on. Read the 10th again, and note the last 4 words: "or to the people." Some times when 10th'ers talk about the encroach of the federal government onto the states, what it is is they don't wan't the feds telling them they can't use tyranny of the majority to strip away peoples rights.... such as with same sex marriage. The Supreme Court didn't find a "new" right for people, but it reaffirmed that marriage to the person of your choice is a fundamental right, a right OF THE PEOPLE, and that states could not curtail those rights through tyranny of the majority.
States rights people are not fighting for people to have more rights, or even equal rights... they're fighting to let states be allowed to be tyrants.
....establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity....
And for your notion that "general welfare" and defence" are the only two things important, and for some inexplicable reason they're importance is manifest by where they fall in that line (3rd and 4th out of 5 things) outright ignores everything else in that line, and , well, i seriously cannot think of a rational reason for such a suggestion. You could just as easily say that "establish justice" and "insure domestic tranquility" are the only two that matter because they were written next to each other, and they fall at #1 and #2.... it's a stupid argument on it's face.
On a last note, maybe you should read you're 1828 definition of welfare again;
1. Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; happiness; applied to persons.
A UBI would actually be pretty much a requirement to fulfilling that definition, as well as guaranteed health care.
Progressives were the ones that abolished slavery. Progressives passed the Civil Rights Act. Conservatives have always been the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
I get it. People like you are so fucking stupid that if someone like Trump shit on a plate and gave it to you telling you it's the best steak ever, you'd eat it, love it, and praise it as the best steak ever for the rest of your life. The early Republican party was the progressives, the Democrats were the rural conservatives. Either you actually are that fucking stupid, or you're a lying piece of shit. Which is it?
Abbreviated for the stupid: US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States....
....To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Nah, -1 probably because you're a worthless sack of shit. Conservatives already do take what's not theirs.... most all red states are welfare states, while blue states have to pay more to help the inbred, redneck, red state welfare queens.
Then i'm sure you won't be taking your social security check to the bank, but returning it to the government. You can stop drinking water that someone else paid to have cleaned, air that other people paid to have cleaned, roads that other people paid to have laid down, and maybe you shouldn't be calling the police next time you feel yourself in danger, or the fire department if your house catches fire, or go to the hospital unless you have the money to pay for everything they charge.
Society itself is a form of socialism, it's just some stupider than fuck people are too fucking stupid to understand that.
I would love to see the thoroughly vetted, peer reviewed study that says people only fall into one, or the other, of those two categories. I get it, though.. you want to make out both sides being equally bad... but they're not, and anyone paying attention understands that.
There's always Kansas.
Maybe you should ask all the neo-nazi's who voted for Trump. They're pretty much as conservative right-wing as you can get, and unlike other republicans, they know and promote that they're fascist fucks.
They may not be the greatest at this point, but intentionally making them worse is just fucking stupider than shit.... the level of stupider than shit you seem to spout pretty much all the time. I really do not understand if you hate this country so much, what the fuck are you still doing here?
It was added to the pledge by religious fucking liars to try to separate (even more) the people of the US and the USSR. Why is it conservative religious pieces of shit are such lying fuckwads?
Teaching that whatever version of "creationism" the no-nut evangelicals came up with this week is as valid as the theory of natural selection makes people stupider than rocks.... and almost as stupid as you. We should be hefting an added tax on all religious organizations to pay for all the care the fucking idiots they're producing from this bullshit are going to need because they won't even be able to compete with a fucking half blind pet monkey from Vietnam.
That you're a fucking idiot. No, wait... that's been that way since you shoved your head up your ass about the time you hit puberty. You're a fucking moron is you think ignorance and stupidity lead to problem solving and innovation.... all it leads to is more fucking stupidity.
Jack Thompson's zombie is on the loose.
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/2...
If you can pull your head out of your ass long enough to read, and understand, this... then do so; and quit being a gullible fucking idiot. Why are conservatives such worthless fucking liars all the fucking time?
http://www.snopes.com/kkk-endo...
On the other hand.....
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
That's just a few. Trump got the vote of the KKK and neo-nazis, and if you voted for him, you're ideals align with theirs.
Don't be a gullible fucking idiot.
The constitution also states we should only have a standing army during an invasion or insurrection.... but never lasting more than 2 years. It says nothing about an Air Force. It does say a standing Navy, but not a separate Marine Corp. So what you're saying is, we need to disband the entire Army (they've been active more than 2 years now), remove all our military members from all other countries, eliminate all of our Air Force, and move the Marines back into the Navy's chain of command.
OR, are you saying, you don't even know what's in the Constitution, but you just have to bring it up to try to use it's authority to make your ignorance seem useful?
And you're a fucking idiot. Please, go kill yourself so the world doesn't have to deal with your uselessness anymore.
You're a fucking idiot.
You want to see what nuclear power does? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's what "can" happen with nuclear. THEN, on top of that... we have https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/...
AND THEN there's the fact that nuclear power, as a percentage of energy production has been level for some time (in the US), while solar and wind (you know, the ones that don't cause radioactive wastelands, or materials that have to be sequestered for centuries) are climbing rapidly.
The problem is not that democrats oppose nuclear, it's that republicans are stuck in the 70's and can't pull their heads out of their ass to see the future... and it's not nuclear.
As for genetic crops... i don't give a crap one way or the other, nor animals... although some on the republican-fake-christian side seem to think messing with animals is somehow going against God. And for medicine? Oh yeh, if we could only cure cancer..... or if we could cure 70% of a cancar with a simple vaccine... then the republican-fake-christains will be against it because they have shit for brains.
Space travel? Now you are truly just being a fucking idiot. You're a conservative asswipe who's trying to disassociate from all the stupidity of the people you agree with because deep down you know they're fucking idiots, and by extension, so are you.
Again, you're a fucking conspiracy theory twat. You lying sacks of shit are the prob;lem in this country.... you're too fucking stupid to learn anything, and you're completely divorced from reality... yet you keep flapping your mouth, spewing out more lies. What worthless examples of humanity you are.
Democrats understand not to be gullible little idiots like republicans are. You fucking conservatives are nothing more than enemies of the United States.
Who are the real "low information voters"?
Stupid fucking conspiracy theory twats like you.
Well, you also have to give a little credit to some of the post-war people who understood that one of the lead-up problems to WW2 was the draconian measures we forced onto Germany after WW1. At least they were smart enough to try something different to produce a better results. Still not really compassion... but we have a lot of mentally challenged people here in the US who can't be bothered to actually learn what a word means before using it..... or learn anything else, for that matter.
So what you're saying is, you're too fucking stupid to understand what "insurance" is. I honestly can't tell if you're just a fucking liar, or actually as completely fucking stupid as your posts make you out to be.
Face it, you're a fucking idiot who is so gullible you believed everything the rat bastard republicans said. Why is it you conservatives lie so fucking much? Have you no integrity or morals?
No. It's been undermined before it even passed by worthless, fucking greedy, self serving, anti-American, anti-Christian republicans. Pull your head out of your ass and check out reality for once in your life.