Federalism
‘Conservatives’ Remain Shamefully Silent on Unconstitutional Federal Gaming Ban
The strength of the movement to reinvigorate the Tenth Amendment comes from the states and not from Washington, DC where, unfortunately, even those who wrap themselves in the Constitution often fall short in their defense of it. That is especially true when political...
Georgia Introduces Bill to Reject Common Core
A bill that would render Common Core implementation void in Georgia has been introduced in the Senate. Senator William Ligonโs bill would call on the government to โwithdraw Georgia from its participate in Common Core national standards and forego any testing...
What is Federalism? Why is it important?
We originally had a House elected by the People and a Senate elected by State Representatives.ย Now both are elected by the People directly. Why did the the Constitution originally emphasize a seemingly arbitrary distinction between โthe Peopleโ on one hand, and โthe...
Reagan’s Executive Order on Federalism: A Post-Mortem
A few weeks ago weeks ago we received a question on our Tenth Amendment Center Feedback Forum about TAC’s perspective of Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12612.ย The order, a direction to the members of the Reagan administration to follow traditional...