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Are you a “Tenther?”
No, that’s not someone who lives in a tent to remain off the grid -- although that may be something we Tenthers will soon consider. No, “the Tenthers are the ones who keep citing the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution every time there is a proposed bill they don’t like, claiming the Constitution prohibits it,” as liberal commentator Alan Colmes explains on his Web site.
Well, get ready, because if the health insurance reform legislation now under consideration in the Senate passes, the Tenth Amendment could be all that stands between Americans and the road...
Taking the Tenth
Let's start with Pelosi's absurd claim, albeit made by SCOTUS, that congress has power to regulate "activities related to commerce. First the words just do not appear, meaning one has to read into the commerce clasue to come away with such an idea. Further, neither the framers nor the ratifiers ever argued for the clause granting such power, rather certain powers such as granting charters of incorporation for the public good were rejected.
Also along these lines, we can see that if Congress truly was granted such broad power to regulate activities related to commerce, then to include the patent power was...