“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.”
cross-posted from the Nevada Tenth Amendment Center Why do public schools spend millions of dollars designing, implementing, and evaluating high-stakes accountability tests? Why is the 650-plus page No Child Left Behind Act shamefully 43 times larger than the...
House Speaker John A. Boehner, warned President Obama on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution. If you are asking yourself, “What? Did he say Obama...
Our Founding Fathers carefully drafted the Constitution and defined that the power to declare war properly falls in the hands of Congress. This was no accident. The creators of this country understood that such a power cannot and should not rest on the shoulders of...
Osama Bin Laden has been confirmed dead…. No one can deny that the events of September 11th took their toll on the hearts of the American people. Undoubtedly, this new development will ring loudly enough to awaken the emotions of many, as we move to heal from the loss...
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace,...