Mandate, Provide, and Promote

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If I give a starving man a sandwich I am providing. If I encourage others to give the starving man a sandwich I am promoting. If I force feed a starving man a sandwich I am mandating. These words are all different. The Federal government does not have the power to mandate. Now the Federal government can provide or promote, but not mandate. State governments can mandate, and the people that live in those states can leave those states. Though the option to leave one country and go to another country can be very difficult. The framers of the Constitution recognize this. This is why the newly created Federal government was given specific powers, and from the words of James Madison who wrote the Constitution they are few and well defined. The Tenth amendment was added to explain who has the the rest of the power.