The Constitution of the United States, as adopted and intended by the Framers at Philadelphia in 1787, (and later ratified in the various state conventions), created a decentralized limited federal republic of free and sovereign independent states with specific enumerated powers delegated to the general government, with all other powers retained by the states and the people.
The Ninth and Tenth Amendment: Partners in Federalism for Liberty
But later a Mr. Lysander Spooner would disagree: No Treason No 1; No Treason No. 2; and No Treason No 6.
1:34 pm on October 22, 2021