Is Federal Infrastructure Spending Unconstitutional?

By Rob NatelsonCommerce Clause Postal Clause

The federal government can fund infrastructure in just three specific categories.

April 8, 2018

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Top-5 Myths about the Constitution

By Michael BoldinConstitution

From the necessary and proper, general Welfare and commerce clauses, to the preamble, federal “supremacy” and more – there are a lot to choose from.

November 20, 2017

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Under the Constitution, Regulating Marijuana is Mostly a State Concern

By Rob NatelsonCommerce Clause Constitution Drug War Necessary and Proper Clause

Congress may not constitutionally regulate or prohibit in-state growing, processing, or use of marijuana.

August 30, 2017

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Obama Blusters, Brewer Begs. When will Someone Grow a Spine?

By Derek SheriffConstitution Drug War Featured Federalism Health Care Nullification State Sovereignty18 Comments

Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?

June 5, 2011

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Nullifying Commerce Clause Abuse in Arizona

By Derek SheriffEnumerated Powers Featured State Sovereignty State Sovereignty Movement3 Comments

I predict that Arizona’s SB 1178 will startle our overlords in Washington, DC and deeply offend them in much the same way that the immigration act, SB 1070, did.

February 14, 2011

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Coal, Commerce and Liberty

By Mike MaharreyFeatured State Sovereignty State Sovereignty Movement7 Comments

“I’m fighting back to provide jobs and economic stability to my state by using the very tool the founders gave us as state legislators, the 10th Amendment.”

January 25, 2011

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Introducing the Utah Intrastate Commerce Project

By Tenth AmendmentFeatured State Sovereignty State Sovereignty Movement9 Comments

Despite decades of usurped authority, the constitutional reality is that the federal government was nowhere delegated the power to regulate intrastate commerce

January 16, 2011

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A Basement Full of Water: Another View of the Health Care Ruling

By Mike MaharreyFeatured Health Care Judiciary8 Comments

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson stopped a leak, but didn’t clean up the flooding…

December 15, 2010

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The Congressional Power over Immigration: A Detective Story

By Rob NatelsonConstitution Current Events Enumerated Powers Featured13 Comments

Did the Founders’ Constitution give Congress the power to restrict immigration? Or was this a subject reserved to the states?

December 12, 2010

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Making stuff up as they go

By Tenth AmendmentFeatured Judiciary5 Comments

This is not rocket-science. You cannot have a Constitutional rule of law with inconsistent, flexible rules like the courts use.

December 6, 2010

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Reclaiming Commerce

By Michael BoldinCommerce Clause Constitution Nullification44 Comments

For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything

November 16, 2010

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Having it Both Ways?

By Tenth AmendmentConstitution Drug War Featured Health Care17 Comments

Federal Health Insurance Mandates: Why You Can’t Oppose them and Support Federal Marijuana Bans at the Same Time.

September 14, 2010

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