“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.”
Term limits are one of most popular political issues of the day. Most think of achieving this with a Constitutional Amendment, but there is another way: with nullification. Before 1995, states were legislating term limits. Then in Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S....
Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia is my Senator. On November, 21, 2012, he said that he is considering breaking the Americans For Tax Reform’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which says: Senator Chambliss’ reasoning? “I care more about my country than I do...
The Federalist Papers were written to explain the Constitution to the American people. Federalist No. 10, by James Madison, is perhaps the best known. It explains that a major purpose of our U.S. Constitution was to control the special interest groups, or factions. He...
The Tenth Amendment reads, “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 Constitution does not say how elections are to be run so this power falls...
