Can the Government Keep Us Safe?
What is the value of being safe if we are not free? Did our forefathers flee the kings and despots of Europe and come here to be safe? Did Patrick Henry say “Give me safety or give me death?â€
Resistance Is NOT Futile: Forgotten Lessons from the Nullification Crisis
Regardless of its logical descent from our most basic founding principle, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, nullification simply doesn’t work, critics say. Or does it?
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.
Liberty or Unlimited Submission: You Decide
Many leading founders advised us to look to state governments whenever 2 or more branches of the federal government were conspiring against the Constitution and your liberty. We feel that time is now.
A Gift for my Daughter: Liberty
If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may save your having to face many problems that have hurt people who’ve never learned it.
A Constitutionalist Reading List
Here at the Tenth Amendment Center we’ve had a number of requests to put together a recommended-books section. What follows here are 18 books that I’ve found to be insightful, influential, educational, and/or moving over the years.
Who Makes Foreign Policy?
The media, Congress, and the American public all seem to have accepted something that is patently untrue: namely, that foreign policy is the domain of the president and not Congress. This is absolutely not the case and directly contrary to what our founding fathers wanted.
The Vision of the Founders: Dead and Gone
Bill of Rights Day is Tuesday, December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government.
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.
Will Missouri Nullify Federal Gun Laws?
Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis has introduced the “Firearms Freedom Act†The bill “Asserts the right of the State of Missouri to regulate the intrastate use and acquisition of certain firearms pursuant to the reserved powers of the state over intrastate commerce and the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.â€
It’s Not Just Obama, It’s the System
A new President would no more change the form and system of the federal government than would pumping trillions of dollars of tax payer monies create a stable and sound economic system in America
Resist DC: A Step-by-Step Plan for Freedom
Nullification is based on the simple principle that the federal government cannot be the final arbiter of the extent and boundaries of its own power.
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.
Rob Natelson: A Lesson on the General Welfare Clause
In this podcast, you’ll learn not only the original meaning of the general Welfare clause, but where it’s gone, and why we need the limits it provides.
Health Care and the Fallacy of Positive Rights
How can taking what belongs to another person (their money, time, or effort) through legislative force be a “right”?
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.
What Would Madison Do?
In one of his final acts as president, James Madison did something almost unthinkable by modern standards: he vetoed a bill solely on Constitutional grounds.
Traitors to the American Revolution
The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic, governmental tyranny…
The Missing Patent and the Health Care Debate
What does the original meaning of the “patent clause” have to do with health care and the Constitution? Paul Ballonoff explains.
