“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.”
Many anti-federalists warned us about the dangers of centralized power. And George Mason was one of the most prominent, warning that a consolidated government “is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us,” and that it “is one of the worst...
I loath the TSA. It’s dehumanizing. And it’s a glaring example of what you get when you centralize power in the federal government. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter) For Further Reading Tyranny...
I think it’s a centralized government. The founding generation thought so too. They called it “consolidation” and many warned against it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter) For Further Reading...
John Taylor of Caroline’s Tyranny Unmasked explains in plain, but passionate language the dangers of centralized power, with a focus on government interference in commerce, along with taxation, parties and even so-called “national defence.” Written in 1822, it’s an...
Of all the Acts of Parliament that angered the American colonists and led to the War for Independence, the Declaratory Act is possibly one of the most important, but probably the least-known. It attempted to affirm unlimited, centralized power over the colonies, and...