I'm surprised that Prof. Randy Barnett's Restoring the Lost Constitution is not on the list. Well, only so much time and space, I suppose.

Also, permit me to add We Love Our Country, also sold on Amazaon.com and WeLoveOurCountryOnline.com.
It is an easy and quick to read resource on the importance of the Constitution and why our Founders implemented a Republic.

Please permit me to add THE LAW by Frederic Bastiat. I know he is not an American and it may not directly relate to the tenth amendment but it is the simplist and most well written arguement and definition for natural law ever written and is what the tenth amendment was written to protect.

Excellent list, could not be better!!! Thank you for the suggestions and the listing. I would like to throw 2 more in as food for thought: John C Calhoun Selected Writings and Speeches & The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798/1799.

Bob - also good recommendations, thank you! When I was wavering over the last few that I wanted to add, I did think of you as I decided to go with John Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked....Any collection from the founding era would do well to have that book.

Thanks for this list.

Bob - also good recommendations, thank you! When I was wavering over the last few that I wanted to add, I did think of you as I decided to go with John Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked....Any collection from the founding era would do well to have that book.

Here are 2 more.

The Republic of Republics
$28.00

by Bernard Janin Sage
originally published in 1878
paperback (oversized); 578 pages

This is one of the most comprehensive treatises ever published on the doctrine of State sovereignty and the inherent right of a State to secede from the Union. Written by a New Orleans lawyer who was to have been one of Jefferson Davis’ counsel in the treason trial which never occurred, this book compiles extensive quotations from the earliest American statesmen, both before and after the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, which prove beyond all argument that the American people were never organized into a consolidated democracy, but had existed in their colonial condition as separate political bodies and continued to do so after their independence from Great Britain. The author singles out the tortured logic of Webster and Lincoln for heavy criticism, and shows that allegiance and treason are terms which have no meaning constitutionally if not in reference to a sovereign State. Also included are nine lengthy appendices outlining the ordaining acts of the original thirteen States in the Union, the changes made to the Constitution by the Southern States in 1861, the original forms of the Tenth Amendment, a review of Alexander Stephens’ Constitutional View of the War Between the States, etc.

http://confederatereprint.com/product_info.php?cP...

The True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government
$7.00

by Abel Parker Upshur
originally published in 1863
paperback; 151 pages

For forty years from the ratification of the Constitution, it was well understood that the American States were united in a political compact in which certain of their powers had been entrusted to a common agent, while their essential sovereignty and its attendant rights were reserved to themselves. One of these rights was that of secession. It was not until 1830 that the theory of a permanently consolidated nation from which withdrawal was unlawful first made an appearance in Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution. Daniel Webster would rely heavily on Story's work in his debates in Congress with South Carolina Senators Robert Hayne and John C. Calhoun. Story and Webster denied that the Constitution was either "a compact between State governments" or that it had been "established by the people of the several States," asserting that it had instead been established by "the people of the United States in the aggregate." As such, the States were creatures of the Union rather than vice versa, rendering secession not only impossible, but treasonous. This book, written in 1840 by a Virginia lawyer who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Tyler Administration, and later re-issued in Philadelphia in 1863, is a brilliant response to the Story/Webster theory and also serves as a challenge to the modern Leviathan State which is modern America.

http://confederatereprint.com/product_info.php?cP...

I would add some, but this points out that the information is out there. Now if more people would read about it...

Great list, Michael. I have read a number of these already (The Real Lincoln, PIG to the Constitution, The Cult of the Presidency, etc.), and I agree, they are fantastic books. Very influential and key to winning the intellectual side of the debate.