10th Amendment Essentials: Sovereignty and Resistance
“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.” Before the Tenth Amendment was even drafted or considered, supporters of the Constitution told the...
The Founding Father of the Fourth Amendment
February 5 marks the birth of the American who had the greatest hand in what became the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures – James Otis. Unfortunately, “one of the most passionate and effective protectors of American rights” is...
The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis
At its core, the American Revolution was a constitutional crisis. The British system of government during the colonial era was a constitutional system, but not in the same sense Americans think of it today. The constitution was not written, and in the British system,...