Not that I disagree with anything specific that you wrote, and indeed agree with the spirit of both it and the Tenth, but would just note that I wouldn’t get my hopes up about it ever actually being meaningful legally.

The problem, as Robert Bork even has noted (calling it “an inkblot”), is that it doesn’t really say anything. Not delegating any powers or granting any rights itself, all it can logically be said to state is “that which we hasn’t been given (to the Federal government) hasn’t been given.”

Since of course this begs what is always the question (“what *has* been given?”), this is why you see so few litigants ever citing same to support their position and even less jurisprudence even addressing the Amendment.

Again, not that I disagree with its spirit, and indeed love that it makes it irrefutable that the Constitution is indeed a document of delegation and not one of limitation (not that same has helped much), but logically speaking it is inkblottish at best.

As you are now a contributor to Taki’s Magazine, and as the current article deals with neocons, I thought to include this link to Taki’s “About” page: http://www.takimag.com/info/about/

I particularly appreciated his characterization of neocons as “a bunch of pudgy, pasty-faced kids in bow-ties and blue blazers who spent their youths playing Risk in gothic dormitories, while sipping port and smoking their father’s stolen cigars.”

So, good that you are now contributing to that site!

Thank you for your thoughtful piece on state rights and the constitution.

My hope is we are not too late to reverse the 140 year old swing to the federal side of the equation.

With the Socialist in Chief and both parties to the left of liberty, we are in trouble.

Thanks again for work you do,

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Of note, it appears the majority of voters indeed voted for Obama. Then I witness rising property taxes from the local government’s accessor/commissioner alliances (in my case tax and spend Republikans) during our real estate recession.

Shall I long for alloidial title, or seek the Noahides in vain?

Too late, I fear; the “occupying force” (po-tay-to/pa-tah-to -Demokrat/Republikan-Federal Government/Local Government) is already here.

This sentence confused me: “Why, then, you’re in a bit of a pickle ? all the more so since many neoconservatives, these days, are celebrating signs of local self-government, not for love of liberty, but because they mistake the awakening for a revolt against the ruling rat pack (Democrats).”

I don’t think neocons are hoping for a revolt. Obama and a pliant Congress have extended all of the odious Bush policies. More wars, more deficit spending, more empire-building. From a neocon’s perspective, this is what they lust for.

[Neocons are ostensibly protesting big government and rejoicing in local revolts. They’re doing it. Of course it’s contradictory–both of their stance on states’ rights and of their love of big brother.]