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?
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.
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.â€
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
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…
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?
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.
Reclaiming Commerce
For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,†Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything
Having it Both Ways?
Federal Health Insurance Mandates: Why You Can’t Oppose them and Support Federal Marijuana Bans at the Same Time.
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.
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.
Endless Power and the Death of Freedom
The word “commerce†has wrongly been interpreted by the Supreme Court to cover every person that moves.
When Commerce is not Commerce
James Madison: “In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.”
Commerce, Jurisdiction and Firearms Freedom Acts
State efforts to reclaim their jurisdiction are great. But in some respects, the states are still showing signs of apprehension of, and/or undue deference to, the federal government.
Washington: Are they drunk, or just stoned?
It seems clear that Washington today is constitutionally stoned. Only a return to the constitutional balance of federalism — of strong, sovereign states that check the overreaching intrusions by the federal government — will restore the principles of liberty and prosperity that made this nation the light to the world.
Question Authority! Especially When It Comes To Health Care Reform
Our opponents would like nothing more than to distract us from the issue of constitutionality. But by refusing to be redirected, we can retain the high ground and dictate the terms of battle, as it were. This will also help to educate and prepare those who believe in limited government to resist not only this act of federal usurpation, but all such acts.
States Move to Reclaim Power Over Intrastate Commerce
For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything – from wheat grown on one’s own land for personal consumption, to weed grown in an individual’s own home for the same purpose, to guns manufactured, sold and kept in state boundaries.
The Courts and the Commerce Clause: Obliterating Original Intent
Every piece of federal economic regulation from the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) to all of the 1930s New Deal securities and banking law has been rationalized (made “constitutional”) by reference to the commerce clause.
On the Constitution, Beware the Word “Clearly”
In response to a recent op-ed in the LA Times, Rob Natelson writes: “The claim that the Founding Fathers would have thought the Constitution allows Congress to impose health care mandates is little short of absurd.”
Resist DC: NH Legislators Look to Nullify Federal Gun Laws
NH Legislators again raise the bar for the 10th Amendment Movement – felony charges proposed for federal agents violating gun rights in New Hampshire
The Commerce “Claws” and Obama Care
In 1937, the Supreme Court abandoned its attempt to set limits to the Commerce Clause power and to enforce theTenth Amendment. No longer would the Court be in the business of drawing a line between the federal and state authority, as it had been intended to do. Instead, it would allow Congress to do almost anything it wanted to do on the basis of the Commerce Clause.
Are Federal Health Insurance Mandates Constitutional?
Let us be clear at the outset that federal involvement in health care (except in a few isolated instances, such as federal employee benefits) certainly violates the Constitution as that document was originally understood.
Kentucky Joins Movement to Resist Abuses of Commerce Clause, 2nd Amendment
“For far too long elected officials and unelected bureaucrats at the federal level have passively forgotten or actively neglected the Tenth Amendment that guarantees rights not enumerated in the Constitution be left to the individual states…”
Nancy, Are You Serious?
Recently, the U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, responding to a reporter’s question of whether the Constitution gave Congress the authority to enact individual health insurance mandate, kept repeating, “Are you serious?”
