States’ Rights
Letter writer Cynthia Mazo (July 4) scores the “strict constructionists” for giving “rights” to the states never mentioned in the Constitution. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution seems straightforward to me: “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.” I fail to see how a decision based on this very unambiguous amendment is a “misuse” of power.
DAVID R. GILLESPIE
Bonita
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