“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.”
There is a common tendency among those who doubt the value of the American constitutional system to attack the document on the basis that parchment barriers aren’t enough. Their premise is usually grounded upon the idea that constitutions are powerless to impose any...
The Constitution can’t enforce itself. People often quote Lysander Spooner to make the case that constitutional limits on federal power mean nothing. “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either...
