... the implicit agreement that the first Congress would propose that a Bill of Rights be added to the document -- an agreement President Washington reminded the new Congress to honor in his inaugural address of 1789 (Schwartz. 1118). Several states proposed amendments that would have reserved all powers to themselves not "expressly" or "clearly" delegated to the new national government in the Constitution. ... of federal power. But the dissent in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton signaled that the Court was one vote shy of moving into a new phase of restricting federal power. Justice Ken...

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