“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.”
American presidents act almost like elected kings, with vast powers and very little accountability. But that wasn’t the plan. Responding to anti-federalist warnings that presidents would eventually degenerate into a type of monarchy, Federalists like Tench Coxe, John...
Resisting overreaching government is our duty and as James Iredell, one of the first Supreme Court justices put it, “The only resource against usurpation.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter) For More...
Today in history, on Oct. 5, 1751, James Iredell was born. A brilliant figure of the founding era, he was a legal prodigy at an extremely young age, and played an integral role in North Carolina’s transition from colonialism to republicanism. Just prior to the...
Politics, as Richard Henry Lee put it, is “the science of fraud.” And when it comes to resisting new federal mandates, expect plenty of that science. In this episode, learn the top-4 ways politicians pretend to be on the side of the Constitution and liberty. Path to...
“The magistrate in whom the whole executive power resides cannot of himself make a law” A good reminder for today – and every day of the year – from James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 47. But telling politicians to “read the...