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Constitution 101

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

 The Tenth Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the ...
The Supremacy Clause

The Supremacy Clause

 The Supremacy Clause This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and ...
Nullification

Nullification

Nullification Any act or set of acts which results in a particular federal law or program being rendered null and ...
The Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause

 The Commerce Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and ...
Necessary and Proper Clause

Necessary and Proper Clause

 Necessary and Proper Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for ...
General Welfare Clause

General Welfare Clause

 General Welfare Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the ...

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The Real, Forgotten Enforcement Mechanism of the Constitution

The Real, Forgotten Enforcement Mechanism of the Constitution

In this article, we’ll break down exactly how the Founders expected us to enforce the Constitution - whether the government likes it or not ...
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Who Decides? The Founders' Forgotten System of Checks and Balances

Who Decides? The Founders’ Forgotten System of Checks and Balances

Who decides when the Constitution is violated? According to the Founders, the answer was simple - everyone. And that’s the key to understanding what real “checks and balances” under the Constitution ...
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Luther Martin vs. Landholder: Anti-Federalist Warnings on Consolidation and Tyranny

Luther Martin vs. Landholder: Anti-Federalist Warnings on Consolidation and Tyranny

In a heated war of words, Luther Martin responded to Oliver Ellsworth’s Landholder essays, defending Elbridge Gerry against Federalist attacks and reinforcing key Anti-Federalist warnings about consolidation and unchecked federal ...
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Five Foundational Truths from James Otis, Jr.

Five Foundational Truths from James Otis, Jr.

Years before the Declaration of Independence, he laid the intellectual foundation for the revolution by championing natural rights, property rights, and the necessity of resisting tyranny ...
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Tribal Loyalties, Lost Liberties: Unheeded Warnings from the Founders

Tribal Loyalties, Lost Liberties: Unheeded Warnings from the Founders

Blinded by tribal loyalties, we risk ignoring the Founders’ dire warnings about the dangers of political factions. Discover how unbridled partisanship undermines the very liberty they claim to defend ...
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The Anti-Federalist Views of Elbridge Gerry

The Anti-Federalist Views of Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry opposed the ratification of the Constitution, believing it consolidated power, lacked safeguards for individual liberties, and undermined the reserved powers of the states. He maintained his objections throughout ...

STATE OF THE NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT

Step-by-step. Inch-by-inch. Brick-by-brick. That’s how we build a strong foundation for the Constitution and liberty. This report tells the current story of our efforts.

We like to think of it as a prospectus, of sorts – an “investor’s guide” to our work here the Tenth Amendment Center.

From the Blog

Path to Liberty

Streaming live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9:30am Pacific, host Michael Boldin covers the latest news about the constitution and liberty – plus reports on nullification efforts to undermine and defeat federal programs without relying on the federal government to limit its own power.

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Thomas Jefferson: Foundation

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people”

James Madison: Few and Defined

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Theophilus Parsons: Usurpation

An act of usurpation is not law and any man may be justified in its resistance.

Patrick Henry: Primary Object

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object.

Mercy Otis Warren: Servitude

We have seen in all ages the many become the slaves of the few; preferring the wretched tranquillity of inglorious ease, they patiently yield to despotic masters, until awakened by multiplied wrongs to the feelings of human nature

Oliver Ellsworth: Void

If they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize, it is void.

Thomas Paine: War Taxes

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Samuel Adams: Taxation

The supreme power cannot Justly take from any man, any part of his property without his consent, in person or by his Representative.

St. George Tucker: Usurpation

Every extension of the administrative authority beyond its just constitutional limits, is absolutely an act of usurpation.

Rufus King: Judges

The judges must interpret the Laws, they ought not to be legislators.

Patrick Henry: Sword and Purse

Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.

 

We work to educate people on the original, legal meaning of the Constitution as drafted by the Founders and approved by the People of the Several States.

We also work to activate people to support a 10th Amendment strategy advised by James Madison, a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the union” as an effective method to reject, resist and nullify unconstitutional federal acts.