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.
What does that mean? I always thought it was pretty simple: it means that the United States (the "federal government") can only do what the Constitution says it can do, and that the states or the people can do everything else, unless the Constitution says the states can't. In other words, the Constitution is a document that limits what the federal government can do.
To me that means that since there is no provision for it to take over private companies, give money to failing banks, or control the country's schools, it cannot do it. For some reason this pretty simple sentence has been ignored by politicians for a very long time. Why?
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