“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.”
Under the constitution, federal powers are “few and defined.” Well, that’s how founders like James Madison, Roger Sherman and James Wilson told us they’re supposed to be. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center...
Supporters of the monster state want you to believe that the general Welfare clause in the Constitution gives the federal government the power to do pretty much anything and everything. And since the federal courts have adopted the Hamiltonian view over the Madisonian...
The Founding generation fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from an empire – the largest government in history at the time. Today, they’re probably rolling in their graves because the people have long-embraced the same centralized despotism the founders...
James Wilson, Patrick Henry, Charles Pinckney, James Iredell and others explained the main difference between state constitutions and the Constitution for the United States. It’s no small legal technicality, either. Path to Liberty: November 18, 2020...
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...