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By: Tenth Amendment|Published on: Aug 14, 2009|Categories: Featured, Founding Fathers, Founding Principles, History, State Sovereignty
by Thomas E. Woods
Jefferson once wrote, “When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.†To resist this centralizing trend, the sage of Monticello was convinced, the states needed some kind of corporate defense mechanism.
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