The state has tremendous powers -- every power not specifically given to the federal government is retained by the states.
Not true. The 10th specifically says that powers are prohibited to the States by the Constitution:
"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.
Obviously, individual rights apply to "the people".
The powers prohibited to the states, -- the power to prohibit the individual rights of the people -- is denied to government, -- this power is retained by the people.
Which was exactly how the Founding Fathers wanted it.
The founders wrote the Constitution under the presumption that individual liberties "shall not be infringed". -- By any level of government.
Face it paulsen, -- your visions that the "-- state has tremendous powers --" are limited by the provisions of the US Constitution and its Amendments.
Why do you fight this simple fact?
I have found, through much wasted time reading his inane ramblings, that Paulsen invariably takes a side contrary to the facts and does it in such an annoying fashion that he is not worth the trouble. He is consistently opposed to the system of governance set up by our Founders.