โThe 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.โ
by Larry L. Beane II, LewRockwell.com The founders of the American Republic knew their Latin. That is why they carefully chose the word “federal.” In James Madison’s original draft of a proposed new Constitution (the “Virginia Plan”), the...
Effectively defending American federalism requires us to remember that federalism was not created by the states – nor was it created for state benefit. Federalism was fashioned by the American people – for the benefit of individuals and of the people as a...
Famed legal theorist Randy Barnett has quite an interesting article up in the Wall Street Journal entitled, The Case for a Federalism Amendment. In it, he proposes a Constitutional Amendment as a way to stop the federal government from exercising powers beyond that...
by Ryan Cooper Springfield News-Leader – March 17, 2009 “From the Right” appears every Tuesday. “Every school child in America should be required to read the Bible.” At that point, I stopped clapping for Patrick Buchanan, who was speaking...
by Thomas E. Woods, The Freeman Thinkers in the classical-liberal tradition, to the extent that they support a coercive state at all, speak routinely of the importance of keeping government strictly limited. To that end, the United States has a written Constitution,...
