But whether we like it or not it requires a Republican president and a Republican congress to appoint them.
HA!! That's rich. The court helped deep six the tenth, but it was a Republican president, and you know who I'm talking about, that destroyed any chance of this nation keeping the ideals of what the Founders envisioned.
Now I'm not going to turn this into one of 'those' threads, and I am not by any means kicking on some Republicans in office. However, the Republican party is quickly turning into the centrist party. Evidence the crowning of Liddy Dole here in NC. 10 years ago, if someone like her ran on the Republican ticket in this state, she wouldn't even get 1% in the primaries. Today, the RNC has dubbed her 'THE' Republican candidate even before the primary. They've even started sponsoring ads attacking the Democrats without even a mention of who she is running against in the primary.
As for the Tenth Amendment, to return the power back to the states(where it rightly belongs) would mean in fact to overturn the 14th, 16th, and 17th Amendments. And the loss of power at the federal level would be devastating to bureaucracy built up in the past 100 or so years by both parties. They would be sitting around twiddling their thumbs with no real power within the US except with the occasional interstate commerce bills, passing a random Treasury bill, and passing any defense bills that came across their desks
The other problem is that it would validate the argument made so many years ago by my ancestors that the states have the right to do whatever they choose is in the best interests of their respective citizens. While I might wish and hope for this day, I know that it will never fully come(at least not in my lifetime), because men in Washington would not relinquish the power that they have built for themselves over the years
I am not kicking on the Republican party here so much as rallying for returning the party back to its ideals, that of conservative leadership guided by the tenets of the Constitution
But whether we like it or not it requires a Republican president and a Republican congress to appoint them.
I don’t know if that will help.
John Ashcroft is an alleged conservative, but he treats the tenth amendment with about as much respect as Ted Kennedy does.