Originally Posted by
lmirante
Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Here's how I see it. Regarding Jim Crow, the Fed was stepping in to enforce laws which GRANTED rights. The same is true of Roe v. Wade. The Fed has made abortion a right of it's citizens. Many states have tried to curb as much as they can of that right, but can't ban it outright.
In this case the Fed is USURPING rights via the TSA. The states should be able to constitutionally declare those federal practices invalid.
The Constitution spells out rights that we have. Technically, no one can take them away. The Fed protects us from the states trying to take the rights away and the states protect us from the Fed trying to take the rights away. In theory, obviously.
I am not a lawyer, have no legal training whatsoever, etc., etc. This just seems like an exercise in logic to me.
bolding mine
Just a quibble, but the Constitution does not enumerate our rights. It limits the power of the federal government vis vis the states and the citizens of the states. The Bill of Rights within the constititution gives people the impression that you have, but it is a false one.
The powers of the federal government were intended to be limited and FEW. The rights of the citizens and states were relatively unlimited.
This situation is now reversed. We are living under an oppression that the founding states were worried about when they debated on whether to have a federal government at all. Never would they have created this monster if they thought the end result was the strip searching of people's bodies, and sex organs and all being fondled by agencies of the federal government purely on their whim. NEVER.