28th Amendment

Except where expressly stated, nothing in this Constitution or its Amendments shall grant to the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the federal government jurisdiction over the several states.

This prohibition of federal interference extends to but is not limited to all matters in the nature and substance of state legislation, providing such law affords its protection equally to all citizens and whose implementation is consistent with common law procedures of "due process."

The general welfare clause in the preamble and in Article 1, Section 8, of this Constitution shall not be construed to grant the federal branches of government any extended powers not previously or subsequently and specifically enumerated in this Constitution.

This Amendment also defines commerce among the states as only those economic transactions conducted between two or more states, and not those transactions conducted by parties or entities residing in the same state regardless of their impact upon commerce among the states. Furthermore, regulating commerce among
the states may be used only to ensure the free flow of commercial transactions voluntarily established among the several states; it does not include the requirement or the elimination of economic transactions without further Amendments to this Constitution.

It is also hereby established that any state whose inhabitants desire through legal means and in accordance with state law to leave this union of the the several states shall not be forcibly refrained from doing so by the federal government of these United States.