The United States desperately needs federal judges who will enforce the 10th amendment 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.
Here are congresses powers.
1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4. To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7. To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
10. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13. To provide and maintain a Navy;
14. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;-And
18. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
19. Enforce the Prohibition of slavery via the 13th amendment.
20. Enforce the prohibition of discrimination based on race by the states via the 14th amendment
21. Enforce the prohibition of denying any male over the age of 21 from voting via proportional removal of seats from the house of representatives and electoral college via the 14th amendment.
22. Enforce the prohibition of abridging the right to vote based on race via the 15th amendment
23. Income Tax via the 16th amendment.
24. Enforce the prohibition of abridging the right to vote based on sex via the 19th amendment
25. Enforcing the prohibition of poll taxes in federal elections via the 24th amendment.
26. Enforcing the prohibition of abridging the right to vote for persons over the age of 18 via the 26th amendment.
These are the only legislative powers congress has, and all laws not pursuant to the enforcement or fulfillment of these powers should be struck down and left to the states.
Give states back the power to govern themselves then we wouldn't be so divided because states would once again be more like their own countries than not.
If it's not prohibited to the state it gets upheld, and if its not expressly given as a power to congress it gets struck down!
