Tenth Amendment to the U.S. 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."
FEDERALISM
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If the Supreme Court declares a law unconstitutional, which of these is the BEST action that can be taken to remedy the situation?
The Constitution cannot be changed. The rules an provisions may be amended from time to time for clarification, but only so long as the amendment is not in direct conflict with the original intent of the founding document. If an amendment is in conflict with a rule or principle expressed in the Constitution it is unconstitutional, and therefore null and void from the time of its passage.
The basic principle in the U.S. government is democracy. The founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution wanted to make sure the people had control.
The declaration that a man's property was sacred. The court ruled that the Founding Fathers would have included slaves within their definition of property.
There were 77 founding countries of the UN
When the founding brothers, were silent and didn't talk to anyone for 10 years.