“Proper,” “Plenary,” and Preamble
by Jon Roland, originally published at the Constitutionalism Blog It was not until NFIB v. Sibelius, 132 S.Ct. 2566 (2012), that the Supreme Court began to address the meaning of “proper” in the Necessary and Proper Clause, on which most of the powers of...Nullification and the Founding Vision of Federalism
The following is an excerpt from a Speech by Tenth Amendment Center national communications director and author of “Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty” Mike Maharrey When you mention nullification, most people immediately think it’s all...
Freedom and Federalism
One of the bedrocks of our governmental infrastructure is federalism. This is the constitutional recognition of the legal origins of the United States as a union of independent states. America started, of course, with 13 colonies, which became 13 states, and gradually...