People expect that a president will act strongly for the nation. A presidential candidate who reminds them of the limits of presidential power would look weak-kneed and as if they didn't really want the job.
People seldom cite the Tenth Amendment except when the federal government does something they don't like. Massive flood? “Where's the government?!” Same-sex marriage? “States’ rights!”
The Tenth Amendment is a dying duck and the sooner that it croaks, the better. We are one nation, seeking a more perfect union. Far too much of the time, states’ rights have been used as an excuse for being crappy to someone: slavery, segregation, gay people. Plus, it's grossly inefficient to have 50 different departments of motor vehicles when we could have just one. Same with insurance commissions, building codes, education systems, and so on. It might have made some sense when we were 13 colonies and the fastest a message could travel was by horse, but not any more.
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- To what extent does the US constitution allow a state to implement full socialism?
- Is a second constitutional convention needed to make technical updates to the Constitution to a) modernize the language, b) resize the house and senate, c) term limits, d) set a reasonable formula for the pay of the president, congress and the justices, e) direct election of the president? What else is needed?
- Why does Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution provide that "Congress shall guarantee to each state a republican form of government"?
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