The court was also highly partisan after President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed eight of its members between 1937 and 1943. It consistently voted to uphold…
Contributors Paul J. Larkin, Jr., is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. David E. Bernstein is George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. Randy E. Barnett is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
In a certain sense, the Tenth Amendment the last of the 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights is but a truism that adds nothing to the original Constitution.