"James Madison, the father of our Constitution, who 
explained in the Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers 
delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal
government are few and defined. Those which are to 
remain in the State governments are numerous and 
indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on 
external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and 
foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the 
several States will extend to all the objects which in 
the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and
liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal
order, improvement and prosperity of the State.'" 
                                                                     --economist Walter E. Williams