“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.”
“If their duty, their honor, and their oaths will not bind them, let us not put into their hands our liberty and all our other great interests.” These are the powerful words of Gouverneur Morris, the “Penman of the Constitution” and author of...
A lot of people like to think of the Constitution is a dead letter. This ignores the power it still has in influencing oath-takers to ignore unconstitutional federal actions. But the Constitution cannot enforce itself. People must impose consequences when it is...
