the 10th Amendment

Source: "Go, Arizona, go!  July 26, 2010

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40182.html

Constitutional Connection:
                The 10th Amendment cites the "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."




Analysis of the Connection:


                  There has been a debate on whether the states have the right to make their own laws and have their own establishments without the consent of the federal court. The 10th Amendment says so. Founding father Jean Jacques Rousseau believed in world simplicity and humanity. He also believed in liberity and that the voice of the community is more important than the voice of an individual. 

                 Sharron Angle a GOP nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, spoke to a crowd of conservatives with a speech that embraced Arizona’s controversial immigration law and sketched out her tea party-infused values. She exclaims that AZ has taken their 10th amendment right to take care of their borders and their citizens. Angle’s appearance before the conference was preceded by alot of conservative activists and media personalities, who including former New Jersey AFP Director Steve Lonegan, who hinted at Democratic criticism that her views place her well out of place.  


                 Angle presses that the states have a right to protect whats theirs and to rule out what ever they dont like. It is the states' job to take care of what threatens them and to give their people what they want, not the federal government's authority to intervene. One of her quotes at the conference is “It’s one nation under God, not one nation under the government”.


               I agree with this amendment and I do believe that the delegates to the staes have a right to take care of their states, and the delagates to this country have the right to take care of their country. I beliebe the only time the delegates of this country should get involved with the decisions of the states is if there is a national threat or if the states violate any part of the Constitution with any law they are passing.