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How does the 10th amendment allow trampling of the 1st and 14th amendments? There is no exemption for "public health emergency powers". I'm not a constitutional scholar but can read. Surly, the constitution would discuss public health emergencies if it were necessary.

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medicine was primitive when the constitution was written, a lot of people died all the time.

a series of court cases later, 1800s, 1900s, about quarantines presumably established the appropriate mechanisms for setting aside other rights and legal principles for the "common good" during epidemics (such as the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed millions).

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