“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.”
What exactly does the Tenth Amendment do? Technically – nothing. It simply makes explicit what is already implicit in the Constitution itself. But this doesn’t mean the Tenth isn’t important. After all, Thomas Jefferson called it the...
Stare governments are fundamentally different than the federal government and can exercise a much broader range of powers. This sometimes causes confusion and leads people to believe that state governments operate under the same limitations as the federal government....
TAC memberships help us produce more educational tools like this. Members can download this video and read the full transcript here. Every once in awhile, someone tells us, “The Constitution doesn’t say anything about nullification. That means states simply can’t do...