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
The Constitution brought into existence the most unusual government in history. It was a government whose powers were limited to those enumerated in the document itself. If the power wasnรขโฌโขt enumerated, the government could not exercise it. Fearful that the newly...
If you haven’t seen it yet, Rep Michele Bachmann questioned Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke on 03/25/09 and took a position rarely seen in Washington DC.รย In short, her position is that which is enshrined in the 10th Amendment – “Where in the...
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 David Gordon, Mises.org [The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. By Kevin R.C. Gutzman. Regnery Publishing, 2007. Xiii + 258 pgs.] Kevin Gutzman gives his readers much more than they had a right to expect. The “Politically Incorrect Guide”...
by Gennady Stolyarov II The doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that states have the right to unilaterally render void an act of the federal government that they perceive to be contrary to the Constitution, finds its origins in the writings of Thomas Jefferson,...
