Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Feds run roughshod over Nevada’s rights

The 10th Amendment reads as follows: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

This amendment was adopted to reassure people that the national government would not swallow up the states. It confirms that the states or the people retain all powers not given to the national government.

Nevada was not only swallowed up, we were devoured. When Nevada says no, our government says yes.

The federal government controls 86 percent of the land in Nevada, if other countries did this, they would be yelling human rights violations and dictatorship. The Congress and Senate has sold Nevada to the powerful nuclear power industry.

Michael J. Rapovy

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