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Obama Blusters, Brewer Begs. When will Someone Grow a Spine?

Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?

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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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Coal, Commerce and Liberty

“I’m fighting back to provide jobs and economic stability to my state by using the very tool the founders gave us as state legislators, the 10th Amendment.”

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Introducing the Utah Intrastate Commerce Project

Despite decades of usurped authority, the constitutional reality is that the federal government was nowhere delegated the power to regulate intrastate commerce

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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…

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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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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.

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Reclaiming Commerce

For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything

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Having it Both Ways?

Federal Health Insurance Mandates: Why You Can’t Oppose them and Support Federal Marijuana Bans at the Same Time.

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Commerce, Necessary and Proper, and Obamacare

Over the years, the Supreme Court, Congress and the Executive have egregiously misinterpreted and progressively broadened the original and intentionally narrow meaning the Framers attached to both the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause.

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The FDA vs Raw Milk and the Constitution

There is no power granted to the federal government to ban the sales of raw milk. I’ve read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and I never saw it mentioned in there. The very idea, by the way, would have seemed bizarre (and downright stupid) by our nation’s founders, many of whom actually operated farms and drank raw milk themselves.

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