10th Amendment
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments: Keystones of Liberty
The founding generation created a political system that carefully divided powers and that was designed to ensure the general government remained limited in its scope and power. That system has all but vanished, but two oft-ignored and misunderstood provisions in the...
The Virginia Ratifying Convention and the Birth of the Tenth Amendment, Part 2
This is the second of a three-part series examining the Virginia Ratifying Convention that took place between June 2-27, 1788. As the convention progressed, the discussion turned to freedom of religion, a concept which had played a pivotal role in the development of...
The Virginia Ratifying Convention and the Birth of the Tenth Amendment
The modern debate over the meaning of the Constitution often devolves into a dueling opinions between legal experts and judges. But the true meaning of the document and the kind of government it created isn’t found in Supreme Court decrees or through interpretation...
The Tenth Amendment: Lost in the Shuffle?
How important is the Tenth Amendment to modern Americans? Not terribly, according to a recent Internet poll. An April 2016 YouGov online poll of one thousand random respondents asked, among other questions, “Which Amendment to the Constitution do you think is the most...