โThe 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.โ
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I try to push beyond the simple soundbites in the Confederate flag debate. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/211999192″...
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about nullification, slavery and segregation. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208835774″...
Facts: Pennsylvania’s 1780 Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery predated the Constitution by 7 years. It predated Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation by 83 years and it predated the 13th amendment by 85 years. Pennsylvania’s emancipation act also...
I often read blogs, articles, news “reports” and the like – where the commentator refers to the current 10th Amendment Movement with a comment like Hugh Holub in the Tucson Citizen: “The Civil War was about the right of states to allow slavery....
Recently, I wrote about Lysander Spooner’s dubious argument that the unamended Constitution as originally ratified prohibited slavery in a book review I did for The New American. Jonathan Bean, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of...