“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 Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center. If you can only ever read one thing by Hayek, may I suggest: “Why the Worst Get on Top”, chapter 10 from “The Road To Serfdom”? I can’t say it better than he did, so I’ll...
We had a really terrific weekend at the Tenth Amendment Center, and it just felt wrong for me to channel negative energy, despite concerns I had that I wanted to address. So instead, I decided to take some of those frustrations and use them to write something I...
Reading Steve Benen’s article Nullification must never be on the table, I was left trying to decide: is Steve an idiot or a liar? What? Too harsh? I’ll let you decide. “Not to put too fine a point on this, but there’s nothing to discuss — state lawmakers can’t pick...
Ever since food became easier and more profitable to create by machinery the government has tried to regulate it in some sort of fashion. The first English regulation of such was the Assize of Bread and Ale around the year 1266. In America the first endeavour into...
In the time I have spent in the field of public policy, I’ve noticed people like to post on social media platforms, talk about, or blog about how their representatives do not represent them, or do not wish to hear their concerns and suggestions. It also seems...
The “winners” write the history, and always in favor of their side of the “argument”. Government’s job is to “control” the people. Control takes power and power comes at a price: the people’s liberty. In a nutshell, government power stands as the enemy of...
