Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Special guests on The Forgotten Men radio show this Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009:
Tennessee State Rep. Susan Lynn
Michael Boldin – Director of the Tenth Amendment Center

Federalism — the idea of a nation made up of smaller, semi-autonomous states — was deemed so important by the founders of the United States that they included it in the “Bill of Rights,” the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The tenth amendment says that “powers not delegated to the United States by the [...]

Here’s a few radio interviews I’ll be doing in the next few days to talk about Constitution Day and, of course, limited government under the 10th Amendment. (all times Pacific)
Thursday 9/17/2009
7:35 AM – Rob Johnson Show, 840 KMPH – Modesto, CA
8:05 AM – John Lofton, TheAmericanView.com
11:35 AM – Lou Dobbs Radio
2:00 PM – Jack Blood, [...]

While the traditional left has been way off base when covering issues related to the 10th Amendment, Chris Weigant over at Huffington Post is much more fair in his review of both nullification specifically, and the 10th Amendment Movement in general.
Usually, places like HuffPo, MSNBC, ThinkProgress, and elsewhere slam the 10th as being pointless, try to make [...]

It’s hard to cover everything that needs to be addressed in this 6+ minute video, but I’ll touch on a few of them below.

Here’s a few observations:
1. Turley is absolutely correct that “decades of precedent” in the courts oppose the view that the federal government is not authorized to enact a national health [...]

When “they” start giving you a name – and especially when they attempt to use it in a derogatory fashion – you know you’re having an effect.
So here comes the new one – “The Tenthers.”  I recently started seeing a few references to this term in the standard places, Alternet, ThinkProgress, and elsewhere.  But now [...]

Writes Gary Marbut from FirearmsFreedomAct.com:
I just received an email from CNN saying that the Montana Firearms Freedom Act story will be on the CNN Lou Dobbs show today at 5:15PM, Mountain Time (7:15 Eastern)
If anyone gets the video from this, please send it our way asap!