“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.”
Today, the Tennessee State Senate approved Senate Bill 1610 (SB1610), the Tennesse Firearms Freedom Act, by a vote of 22-7. The House companion bill, HB1796 previously passed the House by a vote of 87-1. On its way to the Governor’s desk, the bill states that...
“Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; But, if it is flat, will the King’s command make it round? And if it is round, will the King’s command flatten it? – NO.” When Robert Bolt wrote that truism in his play A Man For...
by Rob Natelson In an earlier post, I wrote that the Tenth Amendment was adopted to reinforce the legal interpretation rule providing that if you list some items in a document, this implies that other items are excluded. The Tenth Amendment clarified that the federal...
from DownsizeDC.org The “Enumerated Powers Act” would force Congress to cite its Constitutional authority for every law it passes. When we last reported to you in late July this bill had 52 co-sponsors in the House, and had just been introduced in the...
Following the rules. We’re all asked (well…told, actually) that we need to do this each and every day. The federal government tells us what to do more often that we even pay attention to. We’re told that we need to give them money, we need to...
Politicians already exercise the (unconstitutional) power to tell us what we can drink, what we can smoke, how much we should earn, what many products should cost and much more. Now, they want to tell us what kind of light bulb we should be “allowed” to...
