St. George Tucker

St. George Tucker: The American Founding’s Preeminent Originalist

by Tenth Amendment | Oct 22, 2021 | Founding Principles, St. George Tucker

While many of America’s founders are justifiably famous, others have received too little attention. St. George Tucker is one. Born July 10, 1752, in Bermuda, Tucker was a militia colonel in the American Revolution, who even wrote Liberty: a Poem, on the Independence...

Blackstone’s Commentaries: On the Power to Declare War

by Tenth Amendment | Aug 13, 2014 | Constitution, Founding Fathers, Founding Principles, St. George Tucker, War Powers

EDITOR’S NOTE: St. George Tucker was the most widely cited legal scholar of the early American Republic. This article on the Constitutional power to declare war is excerpted from his work, Blackstone’s Commentaries. Published in 1803, this was the major treatise...

Tucker and the US Constitution

by Tenth Amendment | Aug 4, 2014 | Constitution, Constitution 101, Founding Fathers, St. George Tucker

Source: Foreword, by Clyde Wilson, to St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings, ed. Clyde N. Wilson (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1999). St. George Tucker’sView of the Constitution of the United...

Powers Prohibited to the States

by Tenth Amendment | Jul 23, 2014 | 10th Amendment, Constitution, St. George Tucker

EDITOR’S NOTE: St. George Tucker was one of the most influential legal scholars of the early American republic. His View of the Constitution of the United States was the first extended, systematic commentary on the Constitution after it had been ratified by the...

The 10th Amendment

“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.”

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