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0 pointsbeaeglebeachedd1y ago0 comments

The 10th amendment was supposed to restrain the federal government to a few enumerated powers. It was gutted via interstate commerce being everything, and you can't give it up because people will start screaming about the civil rights act or the EPA or something.

President, as envisioned by founders, should barely even matter outside of war.

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stetrain1y ago

There was also a pretty significant constitutional crisis in the middle of that that involved an actual war between states with the deaths of many Americans to settle it.

Whether we have adequately updated the constitution along the way to cover the new realities is a valid question, but governing by just what the original founders wrote doesn't have a great track record either.

janalsncm1y ago

> the civil rights act

How would you square the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause with enumerated powers?

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