Comment Re:And this is how perverted our system has gotten (Score 1) 436
Things that were illegal didn't suddenly become legal just because they weren't explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
No, but unless they fell under the Constitutional powers of the feds, they remained state crimes, not federal ones.
OTOH, some things that were illegal in the states did suddenly become legal when the 14th Amendment was passed. Any laws restricting free speech, religious liberty, etc., as well as any provisions creating unequal protection, were null and void from that point on.
Of course, the state often operates under unconstitutional, null and void laws anyway, as much as it can get away with. Jim Crow was illegal, marriage inequality is illegal, much of the War on Drugs and the War on Guns and the War on Copying is illegal, but they've got the guns.