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Slavery. The ability to regulate slavery was not given to the Federal Government in the Constitution.
Are you saying that they could not regulate importation of slaves after 1808?
You can't see the difference in pre-Civil War and after? Before the Civil War, it was thought that States had the right to nullify Federal law and secede from the Union. The Civil War settled those arguments as well (in the negative). That's what I'd call a fundamental switch.
Sorry, but this doesn't address the issue. You keep moving the target. We were discussing Madison and Hamilton. We were last discussing the bank and how it came after constitutional intent was defined. Now we are going to leap to the Civil War and the legislation that followed. I still don't see anything that changed the Constitution with regards to authority of the Federal Government; except, that it would have the added powers to ensure that the States provided certain rights to others. I am still looking for something that gives the Federal Government unlimited authority to do x, y, and z. You have not shown me that nor has anyone else here done that. They have just made the claim that the government can do it and can do it without amendment.
Maybe there are two constitutons. One for liberals and one for conservatives. If so, I still have yet to see the liberal one.