“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.”
Most people know that Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of “The Declaration of Independence,” what some people consider the most important of all our founding documents. Yet few of them have even heard of another document that I would say might be...
by David Sands As early as 1796, the year of the first contested Presidential election, the battle lines were drawn. Although there were no formal political parties, there were loose coalitions of political thought, and as is the nature of any war, it came down to two...
by Derek Sheriff While speaking to a large crowd of over a thousand people on the campus of Arizona State University last December, Congressman Ron Paul mentioned one thing that might come about as the result of the federal government habitually ignoring the...
by Thomas E. Woods, LewRockwell.com “The several states composing the US. of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government…” –Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 William J. Watkins,...
In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky approved resolutions that affirmed the states’ right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the...
