“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.”
During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, one of the most influential and important series of papers were written by the Federal Farmer, an anti-federalist who forcefully warned that the proposed federal government would lead to consolidation and a...
This is last night’s Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly. Be one of them. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) As I write this, it’s...
Today in history, on July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed the Richard Henry Lee resolution, which called for ties between Great Britain and the American states to be “totally dissolved.” The monumental vote was unanimous among the colonies, with New...