“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.”
While promoting nullification blog posts and community action against unconstitutional federal acts, I always come across a small, but vocal number of people who believe that the first and only solution to our problems is violence. I’m talking full-blown war,...
“You don’t have to make a federal case out of it!” When I was a kid, we used to use that phrase a lot, when people would get all apoplectic about some issue that really wasn’t that big of a deal. Well, today I find myself using that phrase on...
The following is an excerpt from Our Lost Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty We all intuitively understand – we need rules. And we must follow them. The U.S. Constitution provides a framework, the rulebook, if you will, for the federal government; each...
Once every four years we get to witness one of the silliest traditions of all time: the predictable “Don’t blame me, I voted for Candidate X” bumper stickers and, nowadays, internet memes. Of course, this is not a recent development. Some of my...
The other day, I posted a link to a video on my Facebook page based on a portion of my book Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty. The video addresses the proper way to determine the original meaning of the Constitution. Several folks took issue with...
A Nevada man recently filed a federal lawsuit claiming local police violated his rights protected under the Third Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. If you had to go look up the Third Amendment, don’t feel bad. You certainly weren’t alone. Americans...