It's truly wild how much power the federal government has usurped. They have twisted other parts of the constitution so much that they can argue virtually anything they wish to do has constitutional basis.

This is where following the "letter" of the constitution doesn't make sense. There is no way in hell that the founding fathers wanted the federal government to have unlimited authority, so long as they can make a claim that whatever they're doing has some smidgen of an impact on interstate commerce or the "general welfare."

The examples of endless. If the founding fathers wanted the federal government in charge of education, for example, they would have written that down explicitly. Yet, here we are, with a federal department of education because it "promotes the general welfare" and "affects interstate commerce."

I cannot think of a single potential action the federal government could take that could not be argued to promote the general welfare or affect interstate commerce. As such, we're very much interpreting the constitution to simply not have the 10th amendment.