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[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

sovereignty resides in the people, and Congress can exercise no power which they have not, by their constitution, entrusted to it; all else is withheld.”

Teddy Roosevelt ruined this for the citizenry. He argued the the Constitution documents what the govt could not do; in contrast to the principle that the govt could only do what was authorized.