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Some Democrats are pushing a parliamentary longshot: asking lawmakers -- late in the session -- to put a constitutional ...

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Faculty experts at Harvard Kennedy School see unprecedented challenge to the rule of law and to constitutional norms and consider how the courts and other institutions will respond.

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. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...