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.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Permission!
We need to exercise our rights whether they the government want us to or not.
Bridging the Political Chasm
In an era of increasing political divisiveness, perhaps citizens embracing widely varied political ideologies can find a rallying spot and common ground around the Constitution, the 10th Amendment and the political processes brilliantly devised by our founders.
State Sovereignty: A Tool to Protect Freedom
The Founders knew that if permitted, the federal government would transgress the limits of the constitution, and, as Thomas Jefferson remarked, “[annihilate] the state governments and erect upon their ruins a general consolidated government.”
Even those who disagreed agreed on federalism
Maintaining government over the daily concerns of people at the lowest level possible was necessary for self-government to thrive and kingly government to have no place in the future of the United States.
Gulf Crisis Exposes Failures of Centralized Power
After 100 years of ignoring this division of power, we are faced with a daunting task; but our country cannot continue to be the land of the free without decentralization.
The Will of the People, the Power of the States
It might be plausible that soon we can all confidently say, “All politics are local†and you may truly have the ability to “vote with your feet.†If the majority of a state wants it, let it be – let them say yes. If they do not, let it be – let them say nay and adopt the doctrine of nullification.
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.
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?
The United States Is Not a Nation!
There were “nationalists” even in the early federal period, but they often understood that if the United States contained several nations rather than one, it would be better to separate than to consolidate.
Kevin Gutzman: Freedom vs the Courts
In this podcast, Kevin Gutzman talks about the Incorporation Doctrine and why liberty is best protected under the founders’ vision of federalism.
Choosing Federalism, Choosing Freedom
We are going to need an acute dosage of federalism to even begin ridding ourselves of the disease destroying the body of our once-great federation.
The Hollowing Out of American Federalism
Reviving America and restoring liberty to Americans won’t be simple because we are too far down the road to serfdom for simple unwinding and backtracking. It is not self-evidently obvious what a true Restorative Revolution would look like but the civil rights movement offers a model that may be the last best hope we have before passing a point of no return.
Keep it Local!
Does it not seem wrong that the mere few hundred politicians in the Federal Government have the power to control 300 million people?
Much-Maligned Tenthers Have a Point
As government becomes more centralized, and states relinquish authority, the powerful redouble their efforts to make others act (and believe) like them.
A Note to the Huffington Post: Federalism Is Not ‘Progressive’
HuffPo’s version of the Constitution. Heads they win, tails you lose.
United We Fall
A states’ rights movement should take the form of the secession from Washington, not from the Union, and nullification of the directives issuing from bureaucracies.
The Federal Government is NOT the United States
Despite being an absolute desecration of the founder’s concept of ‘United States’, the ‘Omnipotent Centralized State’ has become zeitgeist through our words, our patriotic displays and our teachings.
Federal vs State government
After decades of broken promises, many Americans have realized that whichever party is in office, the more power held by federal officials, the less control the people have over their own lives, and the more arrogant and dangerous those far off federal officials will becom
Decentralization for Freedom
The central government cannot manage the bloated and unwieldy empire that a century of ritualistic centralization has produced…
The “50 Laboratories” Model for Health Care
Much of what our federal government is doing right now is not just illegal and unconstitutional, it’s also just plain stupid. How about using some “Common Sense”?
