When the 13 states ratified the Constitution, they authorized the creation of a 14th entity. This entity was to be known as the United States of America. This fiction was designed to strengthen the Union not to control or micro manage the states.This new entity was given the authority to represent and serve the people and the 13 sovereign states.
The Constitution was the document that defined what the government of the United States was authorized to do. Any authority which was not specifically delegated to the national government was reserved to the states and to the people. The government was to have limited power and was to take its marching orders from the people and the governments of the 13 independent states.
Powers not delegated to the national government were to be retained by the states and to the people. The people were to be the masters and their state and national governments were designed to be their servants.
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This is a favorite and rather sore topic in my mind.
I often remind folks that the US Constitution governs government, not people. Americans, the vast amount of them, when asked when they last read the Constitution say they haven't since childhood or even never have
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