POLI 172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reconstruction Amendments, 6 Years, Presidential System
9 Feb 2016
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Heath care reform unconstitutional: usurpation of powers of state governments under the constitution, opponents called tenthers . Their government based on the tenth amendment to the constitution. 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. If it is not the constitution, is isn"t constitutional. Potential far-reaching consequences if argument is accepted by the courts. Tenthers argue that expansion of the role of federal governments during the great. Depression was illegitimate: a coup engineered by president franklin roosevelt, some support john c. calhoun"s idea of nullification. Tension between the original constitution of our current constitution (interpretation of) Tenthers cling to the original constitution while most americans accept the current one. Settlers came to: escape religious persecution, establish own religious orthodoxy, avoid debtors" prison, get rich, flee closed society of the old world, work, but few came to self-govern.
