All Legislative Powers Herein Granted
is the Congress the only institution of the federal government currently exercising legislative powers as required by the Constitution?
Calling All Tenthers!
while elections are important parts of our political process, it is the power of ideas that truly shape and set the foundations of nations.
Does Nullification Lead to Anarchy?
The standard charge is that nullification will lead to a destruction of the American system. But that’s not true. Read why.
The Time to Rein in Spending is Now!
The debate in Congress over the extension of the Bush tax cuts has obscured the issue of government spending. After all, it is because members of Congress love to spend money that isn’t theirs that we “need” an income tax to begin with.
A Christmas Gift for my Daughter
“I want more than anything else for you to understand this simple truth that can set you free.”
A Date that Lives in Infamy
December 23, 1913 – Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act. We can bring it to an end through our states. Learn how.
A Tenther’s Perspective of WikiLeaks
The government of the United States has become the distant, detached, self-important entity that the founders had hoped to avoid when writing the Constitution.
False Unity Between States in Bondage
Prior to the creation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the states were separate countries—sovereign political bodies with no superior authority.
Building a Tool Kit for Resistance
resistance to injustice has been a part of American civic life since the ratification of the Constitution.
A Basement Full of Water: Another View of the Health Care Ruling
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson stopped a leak, but didn’t clean up the flooding…
A Re-Write of the Bill of Rights through the Preamble
With the 219th anniversary of the adoption of the document known as Bill of Rights only hours away, every American who has graduated from high school should be able to explain the original intent of the Amendments in ten minutes or less.
The Congressional Power over Immigration: A Detective Story
Did the Founders’ Constitution give Congress the power to restrict immigration? Or was this a subject reserved to the states?
On Federal Education, Think Progress Should Think Harder
Even FDR’s people, apparently, didn’t find that the Constitution gave Washington authority to involve itself in education
Interposition, Nullification and Popular Resistance
“nullification is actually the opposite of sedition and should be understood properly as an important safeguard against sedition, which necessarily involves the subversion of the Constitution.”
Making stuff up as they go
This is not rocket-science. You cannot have a Constitutional rule of law with inconsistent, flexible rules like the courts use.
You Can Fool All the People … Yeah, Pretty Much All the Time
Observing our two party system in the United States, it strikes me that it’s much like professional wrestling – choreographed combat.
Is the Repeal Amendment What We Need?
“It is important to strengthen the State governments, and as this cannot be done by change in the Federal Constitution, it must be done by States themselves” -Thomas Jefferson
Trading freedom for safety’s illusion
Modern American’s seem to have lost sight of essential truths clear to the country’s founders more than 200 years ago.
