“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.”
During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists repeatedly warned about the dangers of too much power. One of their prominent arguments centered around the maxim that once power expands, people with power never seem to voluntarily give it...
Today in 1777, the Republic of Vermont seceded from the state of New York and declared its independence as a new republican state. Thereafter, the fledgling republic acted as an independent sovereignty throughout the War of Independence and remained outside of the...