“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 Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court, working late on a Friday, agreed to rule on the constitutionality of three redistricting plans drawn up by a federal court for the two houses of the Texas legislature and its 36-member U.S. House of Representatives...
Last Monday, the U.S. Postal Service filed its proposal to reduce service standards with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The USPS is seeking to cut costs by closing about half of its mail processing facilities, which would mean slower mail delivery. Given that...
cross-posted from the Texas Tenth Amendment Center I ran across the following fable in a book called From Dictatorship to Democracy (A Conceptual Framework for Liberation) by Gene Sharp (Fourth U.S. Edition (May 2010), The Albert Einstein Institution). Mr. Sharp,...
Ron Paul and two of his congressional colleagues, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D, ME) and Ed Perlmutter (D, CO), have sponsored a screening for the movie Farmageddon, The Unseen War on American Family Farms on Capitol...
When I proposed up here at the buildup to the war on Iraq that if the United States no longer wanted to be part of the UN then New England should send its own represented, it brought a kindly note from John Kenneth Galbraith who thought it “ . . . wonderfully to the...