“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.”
by Andy Quesnelle, Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center If the finest hour for the people of East Germany occurred with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, one of the lowest moments occurred just over one month before. On October 7, 1989, East German...
by Anthony Gregory, Campaign for Liberty The following is based on a talk delivered at the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum in Nashua, New Hampshire, Saturday, March 20, 2010. In the United States, civil liberties are seen as the province of the left. The ACLU,...
by Ron Paul Last week politicians in Washington made a few things clear about how they really feel about the state of the union. First, they are beginning to hear the growing discontent with the size and scope of government and the broken promises that keep piling up....
by David Swanson Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II,...
by Gene Healy, CATO Institute This article appeared in the DC Examiner on November 17, 2009. Friends of federalism cheered last month when the Obama administration reversed the Bush policy of prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states that have legalized the...