Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-2] of 2 Justice Melville Fuller quotesJustice Melville Fuller QuotesJustice Melville Fuller To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that '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.'~ Justice Melville Fuller The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.~ Justice Melville Fuller Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print