“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.”
The framers of our Constitution met during the summer of 1787. (Commentators unfamiliar with the Founding sometimes describe it as a “hot summer”—and it certainly had some hot days—but in fact it was cooler than average for Philadelphia.) The framers did not, as some...
