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The government was never supposed to grow so large that it could …

The government was never supposed to grow so large that it could trample on the liberties of American citizens. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution states clearly and unambiguously: ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution…are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’ In other words, if the Constitution doesn’t specifically permit the federal government to do something, then it doesn’t have the right to do it. Stephen Moore
Between Power and Liberty, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, March, 1997