"So I'm curious, why do you not answer a simple question? I'm granting you the hypothetical power to fix this entire problem with a single sentence. Whats the problem?"
We haven't been on the same sheet of music since this thread started.
I've participated in message boards where I have insisted that, when the 1st and 10th Amendment are taken together, the 10th Amendment reasonably delegates govennment power to address religious issues uniquely to the state governments. But I'm essentially hissed off the stage because of "my" ideas as the argumentative tone of your replies to my posts reflect.
Oops! Did I forget to mention that I got "my" insane idea about the religious aspects of the 10th Amendment from Jefferson's writings? But when I put Jefferson in their faces, the anti-religious expression lemmings go into denial mode and you cannot reason with them.
People question why the Constitution seemingly doesn't say anything about the powers of the states to legislate religion since the 1st Amendment clearly prohibits this power to the federal government. But this is because they don't understand that the Constitution's silence about state government power to address religion is actually what triggers the 10th Amendment to essentially automatically delegate this power to the state governments.
Indeed, because of widespread constitutional ignorance, the people have been intimidated by the renegade Supreme Court, particularly Justice Black, into thinking that the Founders meant for the establishment clause to mean that the 1st Amendment's religious prohibition on the federal government were meant to apply to the state governements as well. Isn't that obvious? :^O
So in short, rather than propose a way to rectify the problem, you would rather just whine about it, gotcha.
It's that or there is something about your real agenda that would come out in your proposal which you would rather not make public.
1 Samuel 8:
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
11 He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle [b] and donkeys he will take for his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us.
20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
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This is why, today, we live in a country which denies the practicality and brilliance of what God, through Samuel, offered in that time. The Constitution defines the relationship(s) between state government and the federal government. Man's quest for expediency and the path of least resistance brings us to a world where state government is but a province bearing tribute to Ceasar.
Welcome to Free Republic, sir. I have thoroughly enjoyed the exchanges your topic initiated.