05-10-2016, 04:42 AM
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Since the Constitution doesn't say that Congress has to have a federal minimum wage, then it can be safely kicked over to the states.
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It means more than that but you can't see it. It means that unless the power to do something is explicitly delegated to Congress then the Federal government is not allowed to do it. Even Alexander Hamilton who wanted a much more powerful central government admitted that in the Federalist Papers, written before the Bill or Rights and the Tenth Amendment was adopted.
10th Amendment Wrote:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Since the Constitution doesn't say that Congress has to have a federal minimum wage, then it can be safely kicked over to the states.
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It means more than that but you can't see it. It means that unless the power to do something is explicitly delegated to Congress then the Federal government is not allowed to do it. Even Alexander Hamilton who wanted a much more powerful central government admitted that in the Federalist Papers, written before the Bill or Rights and the Tenth Amendment was adopted.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises