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" The States can never lose their powers till the whole
people of America are robbed of their liberties."
( Alexander Hamilton)

Legal Description : Amendment X

The Tenth Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights. It was ratified December 15, 1791.  The Tenth Amendment gives state any powers not given to Congress. This constitutional amendment reads,  " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, or to the people".

This amendment restates the principle of federalism.  It formally notes those powers not granted to the national government, and not prohibited to the states, within the constitution, are reserved powers to the states or the people.  It simply says what is obvious, and James Madison's remarks underscored powers not given to congress automatically became states rights.

In order to stop the Tenths ability to curtail Congress, the federal government, namely Congress, began using the "Necessary and Proper Clause".  Article I, Sect 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution, which reads: "the Congress shall have power to make laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by the constitution..."

Sources: Cornell University Law School, www.law.cornel.edu
Wikpedia Encyclopedia,  www.wikipedia.org 

The bigger our federal bureaucracy grows, the greater the corruption.
Benefits for undoing five decades of federal power are:

1. Restore the original intent of U.S. Senators: an advisory board

2. Cut federal bureaucracy in the Senate and reduce committees, spilling into the Executive Branch.

3. Restore States guaranteed powers under Amendment Ten.

4.  Give the voters a more direct and powerful voice in who their Senators shall be. ( At present, Senators disappear for six years, until next election cycle.) Voters maintain their direct vote for U.S. Senatorial candidates.

5. Make Senators accountable to their State Legislators, who have the ability to recall them.

6. The people's disenchantment with their Senator would be aired locally! The distance for affirmative action is as close as the state capitol and its legislature. Senators would represent their state and the people's need within that state. The distance for affirmative action is as close as any state capitol and its state legislature.  Therefore, U.S. Senators would primarily represent their state and the people's need within that state.

7. All politics is local!  Prior to ratifying the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, citizens saw more of their Senators. Each state's citizens' voted for their choice, then state legislatures appointed the voters' choice.. The best know example is the famous Lincoln and Douglas debates. Since Lincoln lost to Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas was appointed as U.S. Senator from the Illinois State legislature.

8. More Money to the States: An important component that will prove beneficial to the several states is taxes!  Each State needs money; better to keep monies at home than to send to the federal government in far away D.C. Allow the voters with in each state to elect officials who can best allocate tax revenues for their individual state
        Money is the key factor in growth and it is the key motivator for the several states. Each State needs money, and they need it yesterday. The repeal of the 17^th, as a stand-alone Constitutional Amendment, gets them no money. But a combination where the states control tax money as well as their U.S. Senator necessitates the power and the programs returning to the states.  Each States would become a capitalistic entity, competing with one another for business and people’s purchasing power.  From a completive, capitalistic perspective, State would reduce their size and scope of their governments

Call for a Constitutional Convention to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment through state legislatures.

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