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Re: lack of evolutionary pressures (was Re: An end to "court (fwd)




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>>>>> Jim Choate writes:

JC> The US Constitution doesn't allow the states anything, it DOES
JC> delineate the duties of the federal government.

	Then what do the words "are reserved to the States
respectively" mean?  To me, it's explicitly stating that the States
have powers that the feds do (or should) not.

JC> 				ARTICLE X.

JC> 	The powers not delegated to the United States by the
JC> Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
JC> the States respectively, or to the people.

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