... to give the states some more rights and to not have the Federal government have an authority over what the states can control. For example, the Supremacy Clause in Article IV of the Constitution states that the law of the land (federal government) overrides the law of the states. This basically means that if the states have a conflict of laws, whatever ... , but when something arises that needs the attention of the Congress to add/subtract something, the option is there. An example would be the 18th amendment that started prohibition, but then was repelled with the 21st amendment. In 215...

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