“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.”
There has been a strong push to do away with the Electoral College in recent years. One of the more interesting proposals is the “Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.” Not only does it attempt to circumvent the constitutional...
A federal agency created under the Dodd-Frank Act unconstitutionally gets to determine its own budget. In 2010 the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed and signed into law. In our copy, the act has 833 pages. Portions starting on page...
While the federal government has some authority to regulate electricity flowing across state lines under the commerce clause, the federal government has seized much more power than it was legitimately delegated. As I reported earlier, on Sept. 28, 2017, Secretary of...
A proposal to expand federal regulation of electric power rates is largely unconstitutional. On Sept. 28, 2017, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry proposed new rulemaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Under the authority granted the...