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The Constitution is what is known as a limiting document.
What that means: if a power is not granted to the government by the text, the power is forbidden to it.
The tenth amendment was added to mollify fears that those limits would be exceeded. Prescient those founders who insisted on the Bill of Rights... If only the 10th was ever used to strike down a law.
Go read the Declaration of Independence some time.
You will be astonished at how small the encroachments into the liberties of the colonists are to provoke such a strong reaction as to secede from
You pay a much higher percentage on gasoline than the colonists were asked to pay on stamps or tea.
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