When the United States adopted the Fifteenth Amendment, it changed the Constitution and all prior amendments, including the Tenth Amendment, with respect to voting rights based on race or color. There has been an ongoing battle over whether the omission of the words "expressly granted" from the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states or the people meant that that Congress has great latitude employing the "necessary and proper" clause to create, e.g., Medicare, to carry out its enumerated power to provide for the "General Welfare", or whether the founders made a mistake, and really meant for Congress to be limited only to the enumerated powers, as if the "necessary and proper...
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