“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.”
On the nature of government, few in history have really hit the nail on the head better than the late, great Austrian, Ludwig von Mises: The government says to the citizen, Pay taxes or my armed constables will imprison you. A state or a government is an apparatus of...
Ok, so it’s actually two questions, but they go hand in hand. From Paul Hein at Strike the Root: 1. If governmental action is NOT in accord with the Constitution, is the government legitimate? 2. If a government is not legitimate, can it command your...