“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.”
Even though most people seem to believe it – and the government definitely acts as if it were true, federal law is not “always supreme” – all the time. Arguing in support of that requires ignoring the words of the supremacy clause – and the history...
The “Real American Revolution” was a radical change in the views of the people – and it happened years before the War for Independence. Some of the main underlying principles are also essential for a radical change in the views of the people today. Path to...
Today in history – on March 18, 1766 – the British Parliament repealed the hated Stamp Act after widespread resistance led to what Murray Rothbard referred to as “the People’s Nullification of the Stamp Act.” As TAC historian and blogger...
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...
Today in 1766, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, it also passed the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America was supreme and binding upon...