10th Amendment
Federal Farmer Makes his Case for the Tenth Amendment
In one of his later essays, the Federal Farmer made a strong case for what eventually became the Tenth Amendment. A major contention among anti-federalists and other skeptics of the proposed Constitution revolved around the limits on federal power.ย In particular,...
Power From the People
Weโve all heard or seen the slogan, โPower to the People,โ but it gets things almost completely backwards. The word โTOโ is the wrong word, by far.ย Under the system and principles of the founders and old revolutionaries, all power comes FROM the people.ย They donโt...
10th Amendment Essentials: Sovereignty and Resistance
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 Before the Tenth Amendment was even drafted or considered, supporters of the Constitution told the...
You Should Barely Know the Federal Government Exists
Thomas Jefferson called the Tenth Amendment โThe foundation of the Constitution.โ 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 This tells us the...