Feds and Tenth Amendment

[From article]
"Ronald Reagan, said [. . .] the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.”
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Polls in recent years show local government consistently getting the thumbs-up from 60% or more of voters. Approval ratings for state government fall in the 50% to 70% range.
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(New York state, where disapproval of Albany is running at 78%, is at the moment an exception).
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“The American people don’t want to be governed from the left, the right or the center,” pollster Scott Rasmussen said last winter. “The American people want to govern themselves.”
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“Real neighborhood government would not be merely advisory as is the case with Washington, DC’s neighborhood commissions,” he has written. “It would include the power to sue the city government, to incorporate, to run its own programs, to contract to provide those of city hall, and to have some measure of budgetary authority over city expenditures within its boundaries.
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the law, like anything else, is a plaything of fashion.
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The Tenth Amendment — the one that says powers not delegated to the US are reserved to the states or the people — is fully rested and ready for action. Maybe it’s time to dust it off and see if it still works."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/states_of_denial_hZSNAff4sDUaTAgvAYyhBJ

States of denial
This election year, local governments are gearing up for battles against the feds
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:46 AM, September 5, 2010
Posted: 12:29 AM, September 5, 2010