Reading this Paper riles me.
Early in the essay, we read of the government’s supremacy; this should have been a warning to even the federalists. Maybe what they had designed DID have the potential for the growth of tyranny. Yet, George Mason held out for a declaration of rights that restricted powers in only certain areas. We now see its faults.
Since there was no enumeration of State powers within the text of the Tenth Amendment, it now means little-to-nothing. It has been trumped by the interstate commerce clause.
Noah Webster pleaded for a national language, a move as wise then as it is today. Now we cannot even get a language for the government, opening the door to court cases in other languages.....and from there, what else?
In #43? Do you mean in regard to DC?