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Old 10-11-2012 | 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Denver
I guess the feds forgot about the 10th amendment a while back.
Federal legal supremacy is included in the base document of the constitution. The 10th came later (amendment, duh) and says that those powers not specifically designated to the union by the constitution are assumed to be held by the states.

In this case legal supremacy was already assigned to the fed by the constitution, and the 10th specifically did not alter that.
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