โThe 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.โ
Here’s what a teacher from Iowaย writesย in theย Daily Iowanย today (in italics), followed by my comment: “Claiming that the Constitution does not authorize Congress to create a Department of Education (it does), Ron Paul displays a startling lack of...
We are long past the point at which constitutional arguments have much hope of restraining the American political class, either at home or abroad. They are still worth making, though, since they serve to show the two major parties’ contempt for American law and...
In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky approved resolutions that affirmed the states’ right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the...
