<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d55d3bd7-1f2a-4d17-8af3-5ab7392f16ea/80993E29-908B-4245-AE84-3777C478337C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.americanthinker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html"><DIV><FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times">The question to be explored is this. By what authority does the federal government intervene in health care? </FONT></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.americanthinker.com/img/D7B650F1-64FE-424B-B66F-AA2D665FA62C" alt="Close" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.americanthinker.com/img/0964FE21-B8F0-4F42-8C4A-515052825595" alt="Close" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html">Ah, the stumper! This is the kind of question that reduces arguments to sputtering. The of course-ness factor takes over and results in a virtual cognitive interruptus. The idea that government (whatever that is) exists to fix problems (whatever they are) is so ingrained in the common mentality that the very question of what is proper is not even considered.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html"><FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times">The purpose of the United States Constitution <EM>as written</EM>, was twofold: first, to form a more perfect union of the states after the chaos experienced under the Articles of Confederation, and second, to limit the powers of the new federal government and thus avoid the tyranny into which history had shown a sovereign national government had always developed.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/introducing_the_tenth_amendmen.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><H4><EM><FONT face="times new roman,times">Amendment X</FONT></EM></H4><DIV><EM><FONT size="3" face="times new roman,times">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. </FONT></EM></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/80993E29-908B-4245-AE84-3777C478337C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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