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Originally Posted by craigepo
"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."
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Winner.
Was perusing some selected Federalist Papers last night & ran across Hamilton's written during the argument over whether there ought to be a separately enumerated Bill of Rights (largely advocated by those who were stuck on the benchmarks of previous such listings found in history).
Concern as articulated in there by Hamilton was that, once enumerated separately (counter to the simply elegant concept of "if it ain't listed as a power of the Guv EVERYTHING else is reserved to the Folks and hands-off to the G") it would become fodder to be manipulated and generally mucked with in some way.
How'd that work out?