10th Amendment

10th Amendment Essentials: Sovereignty and Resistance

by Michael Boldin | Apr 1, 2022 | 10th Amendment, American Revolution, Constitution, Founding Principles

“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.” Before the Tenth Amendment was even drafted or considered, supporters of the Constitution told the...

You Should Barely Know the Federal Government Exists

by Mike Maharrey | Nov 29, 2020 | 10th Amendment

Thomas Jefferson called the Tenth Amendment “The foundation of the Constitution.” “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.” This tells us the...

The Constitutionality of a National Bank: Hamilton vs. Jefferson

by Mike Maharrey | Sep 18, 2020 | 10th Amendment, Alexander Hamilton, Enumerated Powers, Thomas Jefferson

The First Bank of the United States was chartered for a period of 20 years by Congress on Feb. 25, 1791. Alexander Hamilton championed the bank, but it wasn’t without its detractors. One of the most vocal opponents of the bank was Thomas Jefferson who argued...

Breaking the Tenth Amendment

by Mike Maharrey | Apr 23, 2020 | 10th Amendment, Bill of Rights

A lot of people want to shoehorn the Constitution into their personal notions about liberty. But the Constitution isn’t a declaration of liberty. Even so, the decentralized structure of government inherent in the Constitution as ratified does provide a framework...

Why the Tenth Amendment Should Trump Trump if You Want Liberty

by Mike Maharrey | Apr 19, 2020 | 10th Amendment, Current Events, Executive Power

President Trump claimed “total authority” over when the country would “open for business” and end the coronavirus shutdown. Trump said, “The president of the United States calls the shots,” and claimed the state governors “can’t do...

The Tenth Amendment is Always the Right Answer

by Mike Maharrey | Oct 23, 2019 | 10th Amendment

I’ve been told that law students prepping for the Bar Exam are told that if the Tenth Amendment is ever among the answers on a multiple-choice question, they can immediately rule it out. Future lawyers are told the Tenth Amendment is never the “right”...

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