“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.”
The first, second, third, and fourth installments in this series described how the Constitution established a relatively small federal government with limited powers and how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal challenged that plan. Initially, the Supreme...
by Jeff Matthews Federal Health Insurance Mandates: Why You Can’t Oppose them and Support Federal Marijuana Bans at the Same Time. Is there any limit to what the Commerce Clause allows Congress to do?  Let’s take a look at the Commerce Clause, which states,...
by Michael Boldin The following is based off a speech I gave at the first annual Tenth Amendment Summit in Atlanta, GA on February 26, 2010. How can a “crazy†Californian and a “conservative†Georgian be friends? It’s simple – through the principles of...