Whatever Happened to the 10th Amendment

From the left we hear about their first amendment rights. From the right we hear about their second amendment rights. My question. What about all of our tenth amendment rights. For those who haven't visited the Constitution lately, the tenth amendment states that all rights not specifically prempted or prohibited by the Constitution are reserved to the states.

It might be amazing what term limits for congressmen plus a literal interpretation of the tenth amendment might do for this country. The left is fearful of Federalism. The idea that the State of Georgia, or heaven forbid, Arkansas might have the right to determine the education of their children or whether they wanted to allow abortions, blows their minds. An interesting question to me is why this hasn't been hammered out more in the judicial system than it has. What is interesting to me is why as other clauses have stretched beyond the imagination to grow government power, the restraining effect of the tenth has never been injected seriously in the argument. The commerce cluase has been stretched beyond all comprehension to give the Fed's authority over an ever expanding part of our livlihood. Where was the tenth? When the federal government took over education, where was the tenth? When the divine Supremes granted the God given right to abortion, where was the tenth? Why is it that this key amendment to the constitution can't be invoked in the debate about such issues.

Maybe one of these days the tenth will be rediscovered. Who knows, maybe then sanity will return to the land.