In fact, I would say that the idea that the government has unenumerated powers--as a matter of text, history, and political practice from the Founding--is ascendant and could become conventional in the next few years
That's a separate question from which branch of government (and at what level, state vs. Federal) gets to exercise those powers. I read Art. I as quite clearly giving most of them to Congress, not executive edict or military command.
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The views that I am describing hold that the federal government has unenumerated powers that do not depend on any textual allocation, whether in Article I or otherwise. Who gets those powers is not a function of text. It is a function of what the Framers took it to mean to be a sovereign nation.
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Trump, the de facto sovereign, doesn’t give a flying fuck about levels of government exercise of powers.
Haven’t you been watching?
He just rolls right by Congress and state governors and the only branch of government left is the Executive.
