Resolution of the First Annual Tenth Amendment Summit
The following statement was approved by candidates participating in the closed-door strategy meeting at the Tenth Amendment Summit – February 25, 2010 in Atlanta Georgia
What is a Right?
Andrew Napolitano: “Charity comes from your own heart, not from the government spending your money. When we pay our taxes to the government and it gives that money away, that’s not charity, that’s welfare.”
Who’s Afraid of Interposition?
Those who are mystified by the political concept called “interposition†can find a very compelling tutorial in a vignette from Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove.
Myth Busting: the ‘Constitutional Expert’
e know that our founders studied the works of Blackstone, John Locke, Montesquieu, and Cicero and very much believed in Natural Law. The Declaration and Constitution are filled with Natural Law precepts like unalienable rights and separation of powers.
Early Pennsylvania, Nullifying the Way to Freedom
Personal Liberty Laws, Nullification, and resistance to slavery in 19th Century Pennsylvania.
Federalism: The Early Years
In 1798, Thomas Jefferson gave us a timeless message which was a reminder that “we the people†are ultimately in charge, not the federal government. The federal government derives its power from the people.
Jefferson vs Lincoln: America Must Choose
Over the course of American history, there has been no greater conflict of visions than that between Thomas Jefferson’s voluntary republic, founded on the natural right of peaceful secession, and Abraham Lincoln’s permanent empire, founded on the violent denial of that same right.
The Census and the Constitution
The Census Bureau tells us that this year, it will use a shorter questionnaire, consisting of only 10 questions. From what I see, only one of them serves the constitutional purpose of enumeration
Legal Tender Laws and the Constitution
Introduced in South Carolina legislature is House Bill 4501 (H4501), which if passed would make Gold and Silver Coin Legal Tender in the state. Cited as authority in the legislation is Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution and the principle of reserved powers under the 10th Amendment.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore Liberty.
Decentralization is an essential element for restoring self-government (and good government in general) in the United States. And U.S. senators chosen by state legislatures would be a tremendous boon to decentralization. Repeal the 17th Amendment; restore liberty. All citizens would be the beneficiaries.
Decentralization: For Humanity’s Sake
Studying the rise and decline of empires has long been instructive for Americans, and for decades, historians, philosophers, economists, diplomats, statesmen, and others have warned against the American Empire.
A New Age of Jefferson: New Hampshire’s “Free Staters” started it all
Jefferson could awaken us again in 2010 and 2012. And it all started up here in woods of New Hampshire with the Free Staters. Never underestimate the power of a handful of rural red necks, duty-bound, born-again to the Constitution and hell-bent on a free vision of starting the world again. ‘Twas ever thus.
Small Things Grow Great by Concord
John Dickinson, the “penman of the Revolution,” on the anniversary of his death – read the first of his famous “Letters from a Farmer.”
State Sovereignty is About You!
Look in the mirror and ask yourself, honestly, are you ready to restore state sovereignty?
Cannabis, Compassion and the Tenth Amendment
Kansas, New York and other states are looking to the principle of interposition, enshrined in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and the sovereignty reserved under the 10th Amendment to protect their patients and caregivers from Federal prosecution in their foolhardy “War on Drugs.”
The Untold History of Nullification: Resisting Slavery
Derek Sherriff on the hidden history of how 19th-century abolitionists used nullification to fight for freedom.
Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act with Teeth
Wyoming Bill Seeks to Combat Federal Distortions of Commerce Clause, 2nd Amendment – Includes Penalties of up to Two Years in Prison for Federal Agents Violating the Law.
Lessons from History: Nullification and the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Clyde Wilson on Nullification and Interposition and their deep roots in the American fight against centralism and protectionism.
Hope For Financial Freedom
The financial system our federal government created in 1913 and thereafter maintained has created nothing but iron chains around the hands, feet and necks of the states of America.
Raising the bar for Nullification
Thomas Jefferson: “The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government”
Violating your Rights, Then and Now
Thomas Paine: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
Combating Terrorism: The Lessons of 1798
James Madison once observed that “it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.â€
Glenn Beck, States’ Rights, and the Myth of the Libertarian Dictator
The entire point of freedom is to protect the right of someone else to do something you think is stupid, or even wrong. Otherwise, when the winds of popular opinion shift, who will protect your right to do the same?
Obama’s Fake “Spending Freeze”
If government would stick only to what it was authorized to do, and leave the rest to the people, most of our economic problems would resolve themselves.
