AllbyMyRelf

She found out recently that she had cushings due to corticosteroid use. Once she got the diagnosis, she addressed it and she slimmed back down as she recovered from cushings.

Yeah, I used to be a rabid fan. I honestly just don’t care much anymore.

I’m sure there are lots of contributing reasons for me—young kids, team isn’t very competitive, I moved out of state, etc., but the professionalization is a big part too.

That’s pretty cool

Allen Edmonds

Yup. Constitution is a document that gives limited powers to the federal government. Only in very few ways does it restrict the power of the states. The state constitutions were the documents that limited the powers of the states.

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but these things you say could happen didn't really happen. So how can that have ever been in the intent?

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The intent I’m describing wasn’t that citizens should be unfree at some federal level, rather, the intent I’m describing is that the bill of rights was only intended to restrain the federal government

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I don't think it was applied and done the way you are claiming, or that it was actual intent.

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You’re the only one who thinks this. Go read a book.

I’m sorry that you’re wrong and that you’re taking it this hard. If it helps, the 14th amendment was ratified and you don’t have to worry about these things.

Here is the text of the 10th Amendment:

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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

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Let’s break it down.

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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution

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In this clause “United States means the federal government, and the powers are the enumerated powers listed in the Constitution like the spending power, power to regulate interstate commerce, etc. So this clause deals with powers that are not listed in the constitution as having been given to the federal government.

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nor prohibited by it to the States

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The “it” here refers to the Constitution. So this clause refers to a list of powers that the constitution explicitly says States do not have. These are outlined in Article 1, Section 10:
- enter into treaties/ alliances
- coin money or emit bills of credit
- pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws
- impair obligations of contracts
- lay duties on imports

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are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

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So everything that was not delegated to the federal government or expressly prohibited for the states resides with the states. If the states don’t touch it, then with the people.

Notably, the bill of rights is not applied to the states here. Hope this helps.

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This is flat out lie because the 10th amendment directly states that those which were not prohibited were the only ones given by the states. The fact states were getting away with things and the supreme court ruled in such a way doesn't mean that's how it was ever supposed to work. “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.” Because if the states are allowed to stomp on those rights, then you don't have them at all to being with. I don't know about you, buy my rights are God given.

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You’re confused by the structure. The constitution (as originally written/ understood, not as interpreted by leftist New Deal judges) gave the federal government enumerated powers. These were the only powers the federal government had. As you stated, everything else belonged to the state under the 10th amendment. Everything not regulated by the state then belonged to the people. I.e., if neither the state nor the federal government had the power to regulate it, then that authority/ discretion was left to the individual.

The bill of rights were limitations on the federal government. They were clarifications that notwithstanding any powers given to the federal government in the constitution, the federal government couldn’t violate that bill of rights.

Importantly, however, the bill of rights did not apply to the states. A state constitution could regulate speech or say you had to be a specific religion to hold office, or say who couldn’t own a gun.

It wasn’t until the 14th amendment that the bill of rights were incorporated to the states. This is called incorporation doctrine.