Taking an idea from Wyoming’s Democratic governor, Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney is considering pressing Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to bolster states’ rights. Gov. Dave Freudenthal is asking the Wyoming legislature to urge Congress to make the 10th Amendment’s protections to states more explicit and to amend the Commerce Clause, which Congress has used to expand federal power. “It’s significant that it’s coming from a Democrat,” said Denney/Dan Popkey, Idaho Politics. More here.

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Question: Do Freudenthal and Denney have a legitimate beef that the federal government has claimed power that the states should have?