‘Code of the West’ Guides Otter in Taking Idaho Beyond Potatoes
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Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter pulled a pocket-sized Constitution from his back pocket with a grin and recited the 10th Amendment from memory.
“Twenty-eight words,” Otter said about the passage that grants states rights not given to the federal government. “They wanted to keep it simple because they wanted the states to be the laboratory of this republic.”