10th amendment powers not granted the federal government.

Or perhaps one of State Constitutions was granted the power by it's own population but if not and if so usually in the area of requirements to purchase but I don't of any State with a real state militia which changes nothing.

Therefore 9th amendment powers not granted. is the trump card.

I don't remember them being appealed.

I seem to remember them being ignored which brings us to high crimes and misdemeanors.

I don't remember voting someone back into office as a method of amendment come to think of it.

There's an old saying that decent people don't become politicians, neither to capable people.

The question is as usual where do you find the names to squeeze into the table of elements?

News media? NO
Education? HELL NO
Political parties in power? Double HELL No

Any nominations from...damn! Here's a thought? From the citizens?

Agreed. It's called an Amendment To The Constitution. Unless you can get the Supreme Court to issue one of their own executive orders, or the Congress to enact a bill requiring a signature and a veto over ride.

If you can't get any interest in Amendments for adding the word Education or changing Census of those present to census of citizens or replacing electoral college with popular vote or...replacing income tax with end user consumption tax or....the list goes on and on and on. If you can't get a Congress of the present party in power to enact a bill for that or perhaps dumping all non-elected from the Act of Succession or making themselves subject to Insider Trading or laundering tax dollars into campaign funds via Davis-Bacon, or the court to say a Representative and Senator are State Delegates not Federal employees, or a President to do the same by Executive Order, that leaves dumping the Party in Power forming a coalition of the disenfranchised and instituting Recall for those who don't have it at the local level and that means targeting selected areas of those 110,000 precincts and going after 13% of those who eligible to vote to who registered and do vote.

No sweat!

Any of those will get you to stripping the Executive and passing an equal amount of power to the Supreme Court.

Remember the War Powers Act? Only the Republican half complied. The Democrats wars were started without seeking approval.

And let's add a law against ignoring the Constitution in defiance of 9th and 10th Amendment. Wait a minute. It's already a law and a Constitutional law at that.

But no one to enforce it except what's left of voting rights.

I lived wearing a weapon for 28 years. Living without one strapped on took some adjusting. Now I live where weapons are illegal except some used for hunting and predator control and of course the military and police and those the US Attorney General runs over the border.

I also hang out in an area with an old style Las Vegas attitude of keep the tourists and foreigners happy so the control of crime is from two directions. Point of interest. the murder rate per 100,000 of the one million US citizens who live most or all the year across the border is slightly less than three. or less than thirty. The rule is stay more than fifty miles south of the border and use common sense when going and where going in the local area. Just like LA or Chicago or most of Houston (the latter has a rarte of 12 per hundred thousand.) When crossing North I can and may pull out a weapon and a carry permit where needed. I feel no such need south of the border.

So...having read Hallings second book back to a Second Amendment comment. I realized it was a contract between the States (then 13 now 50) to ensure the States had protection. National Guard being 95% federally funded and 100% federally controlled doesn't qualify as a State Militia per Constitution.

There is no extension on the subject beyond the State and to it's citizens that I can find. No Powers Granted unless they are in the State Constitution but it's either or both 9th and 10th amendment as the root source. Just like appointing people illegally. Having not been visited by the Supreme Court is not an excuse for seizing power a la Hitler or any of the others.

There are references to self defense etc. in most of those documents except perhaps California and Chicago.

It would appear from that view point control of citizens owning weapons is none of the federal governments business.

Haven't thought it all the way through but it ties a couple of threads, one about using stories to spread knowledge, together in a practical example. Providing the Constitution is followed and therein lies the the problem with the dictatorship of the Government Party.

Your turn.