The supremacy clause “expressly limits this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution.”
Even Alexander Hamilton understood this. And he was as big of a fan of centralized national power as you could find among the founders.
But today, almost all the “experts” would have you believe that every federal law is always supreme.
End of story.
That’s absurd.
Nobody would agree to such a system at the founding.
Hamilton knew it.
He explained that laws and acts that are “made in Pursuance” of the Constitution are supreme.
It’s pretty simple.
If an act is pursuant to the Constitution, it’s the supreme law of the land.
If it isn’t, it’s not.
Period.
Here at the Tenth Amendment Center, we work every day to counter the relentless propaganda of the government-run “education” system – including the myth of absolute federal supremacy. We teach the founders’ Constitution with its strict limits it puts on federal power.
But we don’t have major corporate backing – or even the stolen money they call “taxation” to get the job done. So this kind of education can’t happen without your help.
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And that’s not the end of the story. As Hamilton explained – any federal act that’s not in pursuance of the delegated powers of the Constitution is NOT supreme.
“It will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the large society which are not pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land.”
William Davie, a North Carolina delegate to the Philadelphia Convention, agreed. He said a federal act “can be supreme only in cases consistent with the powers specially granted, and not in usurpations.”
And that’s exactly what Hamilton called any federal action not pursuant to the Constitution.
“These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such.”
Living under the largest government in history, there are a LOT of acts of usurpation that deserve to be treated as such. Getting there starts with education about what the Constitution authorizes.
With your help, we’ll continue reaching and teaching more people than we ever thought possible.
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