We Were Warned
The celebration of our founders’ 1776 revolt against King George III and the English Parliament is over. Let’s reflect how the founders might judge today’s Americans and how today’s Americans might judge them.
The Founding Fathers Rejected Democracy
The Constitution, as designed, is the mechanism to ensure we stay a Republic. We must demand from our leaders a strict adherence to that document in order to preserve our liberty, and that of future generations.
What Is The U.S. Constitution?
A constitution does not create freedom. A constitution is created only to protect and secure freedom which already exists, through forms, structure and limitations of government.
Obamacare: Another Assault on Federalism
The astute constitutional student will recognize that there is no authority whatsoever under Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution (the part of the Constitution which outlines the powers of the federal government) to create or administer a health care system.
More than Just Words
Our constitutional ignorance, coupled with the fact that we’ve become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants, has made us easy prey…
Federalism: Structured for Change
Federalism was the ideal model for improvement because it acknowledged each state as a laboratory of ideas. No state had a monopoly on good public policy. States retained autonomy over education, business, religion, over how to address healthcare or poverty.
Support The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
It is time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended. Patients and their state representatives should have the authority to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis — free from federal interference.
Rob Natelson: Understanding Federalism
In this first Tenth Amendment Center Podcast, Professor Rob Natelson teaches us about proper role of government in a federal system and much more…
The Coerced States of America
I propose the United States of America change its name to the Federalized States of America, or better yet the Coerced States of America. We should either make this change or return to a literal reading of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The Meaning of Federalism
The Founders devised what was essentially a new system of government. It has come to be called federalism.
The Founders Knew Latin
Their vision was for the United States to be a union of sovereign states as opposed to a consolidation of the states into “one nation, indivisible” – and this reality is embedded in the very word “federal.”
It’s the People’s Right!
The Tenth Amendment is not so much about “states’ rights†as it is about an individual right to be governed locally.
Randy Barnett and the Destruction of Federalism
While calls to reduce federal power are good, Barnett’s method has a greater chance of destroying federalism further than doing anything to achieve it
Nullification: The Jeffersonian Brake on Government
by Thomas E. Woods, The Freeman Thinkers in the classical-liberal tradition, to the extent that they support a coercive state at all, speak routinely of the importance of keeping government strictly limited. To that end, the United States has a written Constitution, which enumerates the relatively brief list of tasks entrusted to the federal government [...]
10th Amendment: History and Purpose
by Justin D. Lowry, Georgia Conservative Weekly The purpose of the 10th Amendment is to define the establishment and division of power between the Federal government and state governments. This amendment also protects these powers from both entities. This amendment was used to define the federal taxing power, federal police power, and federal regulations. At [...]
The Meaning of Federalism
by Clarence B. Carson, Fee.org Several developments have contributed to making the meaning of federalism obscure. Some are old, some recent. Some may be more or less innocent; others are destructive of federalism itself. One of these that may be more or less innocent is the habit of referring to the United States government as [...]
Unity and Federalism
by Gary Galles After a bitter and divisive election, Democrats have regained the presidency and widened their control of Congress. Now they are making the usual political victors’ calls for unity. But unfortunately, Americans’ often diametrically opposed preferences for what they want government to do guarantees disunity under our current approach to governance. Opposing desires [...]
Oklahoma: Standing up for State Sovereignty
by Rich Hand As usual, Walter Williams hits the nail on the head. This article references a referendum introduced in the state legislature of Oklahoma to put the Federal government on notice that it has over stepped its bounds based on the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The founders would have never been [...]
National vs Local Government
by Clay Barham If you reflect back on how the institutions of governance grew in America, from 1620 to the present, you will see that National Government grew into its present level without much public support. The settlements starting in New England, as well as Jamestown, were small and managed more from a town hall [...]
One by One: Returning to the Constitution
The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution embodies much of what the founders envisioned for this country – a federal government strictly limited to only specific activities, with the rest being handled on state or local levels. Some may call this states’ rights, others refer to it as decentralization or federalism. Whatever you call it, [...]
Liberty and Federalism vs States Rights
by Steve Kubby “States’ Rights” is an Anti-Libertarian Concept The concept of federalism is properly used to describe a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between the federal government and the states. In contrast, the term “states’ rights” is a fraudulent and profoundly ANTI-Libertarian concept that has no other purpose but to [...]
Restraining Tyranny
As all major politicians move more and more towards centralization as the solution to virtually every problem in this country, there’s no greater need to start looking back to America’s founding principles of state sovereignty, argues Clay Barham at PopulistAmerica.com
The Statist and the Straw Man: Answering Attacks on Tenthers
The sovereignty movement is feared and ridiculed for its independence by weak minded men who consider themselves intelligent, but are really nothing more than altar boys for the State.
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