On the recordJune 24, 2008
When the Father of the Constitution issues such a warning, we should listen closely. Even more importantly, the Constitution of the United States says in the 10th amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." In 1941, the New Deal Supreme Court, in Darby v. United States, commented that this amendment is mere "truism." Many of us here in this body would challenge that assertion. The authority of the States and their right to govern their own affairs is not a trite and archaic remark but an essential aspect of our Federal system. We diminish it to the peril of our system of Federalism which has been vital to our freedom as a Nation. H.R. 5876 is not a solution looking for a problem, but it is a solution that I will submit solves fewer problems than it will create.
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