Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1995
Abstract
the 10th Amendment was something they noted for the bar exam and then promptly forgot about. But for many conservative lawyers and politicians, the 10th Amendment- which reserves to the states all powers not given to the federal government-has been anything but academic. For them, it embodies the founders' promise for a nation in which the states and federal government are near-equal partners. And they have fought long and hard to give the amendment its proper due. As the rise of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and his Contract with America attest, their day may have finally come. Today, federalism, or limiting the federal government and returning power to the states, has become the central rallying cry for political change.
Recommended Citation
Richard C. Reuben,
The New Federalism, 81 ABA Journal 76
(1995).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/845