Excerpt from Review of the Constitution of the United States: Including Changes by Interpretation and Amendment for Lawyers and Those Not Learned in the Law
The tendency of the officials of every nation is to augment their own importance and powers by grasping additional powers for the government they represent.
The accomplishment of this augmentation of powers to the government must take place by periodic steps, each step appearing innocent at the time, or of too little importance to attract attention.
Every additional power seized for the government must be taken from the reserved powers, or from powers lodged elsewhere by the organization of the government.
In the United States, certain powers are retained in the states, and all powers not granted to the United States, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or the people.
This division of powers between the United States and the several states, makes each, in guarding its own powers, necessarily guard the reserved powers of the people; so that, whether the powers so seized for the United States be taken from the people, or the states, the people will be the sufferers; hence, we must not only be watchful of the reserved powers of the people, but must be mindful of the powers of the states.
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