LINCOLN - At least three Nebraska lawmakers want to send a message to the federal government: Butt out of state business. Next year they will see if a majority of their colleagues agrees. The senators are working on resolutions asserting Nebraska’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Congressional powers 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. Among the powers given to Congress by the U.S. Constitution: >>To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. >>To borrow money on the credit of the United States. >>To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. >>To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States. >>To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and […]