Reply #22: The Constitution enumerates powers..

[Gravel Democrat]

those not enumerated are reserved to the states via the 10th amendment:

"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

If the Feds can/could do whatever they want/wanted to do why was the 18th Amendment (the prohibition of the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol-*NOT* consumption-) passed?

After all, it encompassed health, interstate commerce and popular sentiment.

The Constitution *is* a living document, but by design it's not easy to change. And *Every* American should be happy about that.

Do you want the (R)epublicans running around mandating that you buy stuff?

I don't think so