“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.”
One of the bedrocks of our governmental infrastructure is federalism. This is the constitutional recognition of the legal origins of the United States as a union of independent states. America started, of course, with 13 colonies, which became 13 states, and gradually...
Have you ever wondered who thought of sailing in a steel ship? If for millenia, ships were made of wood that was able to float by itself, who would think to make a ship out of steel, which will sink if you put it in water? This thought no doubt plagued early sailors...
My wife manages a store for the country’s largest grocery chain. Kroger raked in over $90 billion in sales during fiscal year 2012. The company employees some 339,000 people and runs more than 3,000 stores, either directly or through its subsidiaries. Now imagine for...
by Derek J. Sheriff and Bernie LaForest “I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It’s not a good use of our resources.†So said presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, at a 2007 campaign event in Nashua, NH....
By Dr. Troy Kickler Many Americans forget the role that states played during the American Revolution and in the formative years of the United States. And many North Carolinians forget the valuable role that our state played in that war and in constitutional thought....
by Derek Sheriff Yuri N. Maltsev worked as an economist on Mikhail Gorbachev’s economic reform team before defecting to the United States. Thankfully, he managed to immigrate to the United States without stopping in Siberia. Today he teaches economics at Carthage...