“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.”
by Ron Paul Since my 2008 campaign for the presidency I have often been asked, “How would a constitutionalist president go about dismantling the welfare-warfare state and restoring a constitutional republic?†This is a very important question, because without a...
by D.T. Armentano, Mises.org Article one Section 8 of the U S Constitution states that the “congress shall have the power to regulate commerce among the several states….” This so-called “commerce clause” is the legal bedrock for all federal...
by Gary Wood In the original intent of our U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 8 provided enumerated powers for the federal or general government with all other powers remaining with the States or with the People. One of those enumerated is the power “[t]o regulate...
by David Swanson Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II,...
by Harry Browne Originally published on May 9, 2003 at HarryBrowne.org Senator Rick Santorum recently caused a brouhaha when, during an Associated Press interview, he defended laws against sodomy – saying that permitting sodomy is as good as saying polygamy,...
by Bob Ellis, DakotaVoice.com Federalism and Tenth Amendment state’s rights have been under assault since the days of FDR. The federal government was created to serve the states and, in the words of James Madison, “to be exercised principally on external objects,...
