“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.”
When you give the federal government your purse strings, you’re giving the federal government control. The feds use their funding to control local policy. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter) For More...
The founders recognized that power over the “purse strings” was a substantial one – as governments throughout history used that to control the people. Today, this is seen in huge ways, as federal “grant” programs are consistently used to nationalize local...
