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Obama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional

The Constitution prescribes the rules about how the United States is to enter a war, and the Obama administration has violated those rules.

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Nullifying Commerce Clause Abuse in Arizona

I predict that Arizona’s SB 1178 will startle our overlords in Washington, DC and deeply offend them in much the same way that the immigration act, SB 1070, did.

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Ignoring History and Embracing Rhetoric: ThinkProgress Takes the Low Road Again

It’s time for ThinkProgress and others who love federal power to start telling the truth – even though they probably never will

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All Legislative Powers Herein Granted

is the Congress the only institution of the federal government currently exercising legislative powers as required by the Constitution?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Amendment X: The False Truism

If the denial to the federal government of any undelegated power is indeed a truism, then why has that entity repeatedly exercised authority for powers it was never given by the states?

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Roger Clemens Should Plead the 10th!

Has anyone ever refused to answer a question from a federal inquisitor on Tenth Amendment grounds? I don’t know, but I’d love to hear it from Roger Clemens…

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Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed

Whenever the people who make up the federal government, either as individuals, as departments or as branches, exercise power not expressly delegated to them as specified in the Constitution, they are usurping the authority of either the states or the people.

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Due Process in Jeopardy

With its recent ruling in US v Comstock, the Supreme Court shows us that it takes liberty lightly

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