“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
A recent article in the New York Times covered the growth of state-level resistance to a future national health care plan. For example, in 2010, voters in Arizona will have a chance to approve a state constitutional amendment that would effectively ban national health...
by H.L. Mencken This satirical piece first appeared in The American Mercury, 41 (June 1937), 129-36, and was reprinted in condensed form by The Reader’s Digest, 31 (July 1937), 27-29. In order to indicate what reached the widest audience, the condensed version...
by Josh Eboch It is no surprise that America’s renewed focus on the separation between state and federal authority has created an almost hysterical rage on the Left. Collectivist ideologues are always necessarily threatened by divisions of power. But rather than...
by Manuel Lora, LewRockwell.com “In short, the objective of the libertarian is to confine any existing State to as small a degree of invasion of person and property as possible.” –Murray Rothbard, Ethics of Liberty Does it not seem wrong that the...
by Michael Boldin Before this week, I had never heard Senator Charles Grassley speak – on anything. In the last few days, though, I’ve been sent a number of emails about him being a “strong 10th Amendment supporter.†Skeptical of any Senator in DC actually...
