05-11-2016, 08:31 AM
(05-11-2016, 02:32 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-10-2016, 02:40 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-10-2016, 04:42 AM)Galen Wrote: [quote pid='180' dateline='1462755995']
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.
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.
Commerce clause.
Only an idiot progressive would think that clause that would cover an employee and his employer when they reside in the same state. The Supreme Court has pretty much been ignoring the Constitution since the thirties and making shit up as they go along.
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The federal government has the ability to regulate interstate commerce just to prevent legal anarchy. Minimum wage? To prevent some real horrors.
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