"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."
Do you see anything in the Constitution that grants the federal government the right to tell me what medications I choose to take?
The Constitution is a living document that provides the legal framework for testing the constitutionality of laws and a method for its amendment. It explicitly grants society, via representative government, the right to interpret, change and extend the Government's power.
To reject the power of society to, by following constitutionally-specified methods, give government this power is to reject self-government.
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"The only way to secure your victory would be to end representative democracy."
That would be why I prefer a constitutional republic to a democracy.
Edit: to be more specific, a constitutional republic that pays actual attention to the Tenth 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."
Do you see anything in the Constitution that grants the federal government the right to tell me what medications I choose to take?
I don't.
The Constitution is a living document that provides the legal framework for testing the constitutionality of laws and a method for its amendment. It explicitly grants society, via representative government, the right to interpret, change and extend the Government's power.
To reject the power of society to, by following constitutionally-specified methods, give government this power is to reject self-government.