10th Amendment reads: 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.
Fine Mr. Shuster. If you want to just start picking and choosing which parts of the Constitution to follow then that is your problem but I choose to follow all of it in spirit and letter. However, here are some of the Supreme Court's statements in several of their decisions regarding New Deal issues. This is after the Civil War, just in case you didn't know that, and directly focused on the type of social engineering and power grab that you so wholeheartedly support now.
1936 New Deal US Supreme Court decision (Carter v. Carter Coal Co.) "The Constitution grants to Congress no general power to regulate for the promotion of the general welfare." - "Those who framed and those who adopted the Constitution meant to carve from the general mass of legislative powers then possessed by the States only such portions as it was thought wise to confer upon the federal government, and, in order that there should be no uncertainty as to what was taken and what was left, the national powers of legislation were not aggregated, but enumerated -- with the result that what was not embraced by the enumeration remained vested in the States without change or impairment." - "The States, in respect of all powers reserved to them, are supreme. And since every addition to the national legislative power to some extent detracts from or invades the power of the States, it is of vital moment that, in order to preserve the fixed balance intended by the Constitution, the powers of the general government be not so extended as to embrace any not within the express terms of the several grants or the implications necessarily to be drawn therefrom." - "The determination of the Framers Convention and the ratifying conventions to preserve complete and unimpaired state self-government in all matters not committed to the national government is one of the plainest facts in the history of their deliberations. Adherence to that determination is incumbent equally upon the federal government and the States. State powers can neither be appropriated, on the one hand, nor abdicated, on the other."
1935 New Deal Supreme Court Decision (A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States) "Extraordinary conditions, such as an economic crisis, may call for extraordinary remedies, but they cannot create or enlarge constitutional power." -
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