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
It is not often the Tenth Amendment gets mention during a legislative committee meeting. Even less often is it referred to accurately or in a positive way. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see this occur at a Washington House Education Committee meeting discussing...
It seems like we can’t go one day without another fact-free, historically-illiterate, unhinged rant from MSNBC’s top Obama stooge Chris Matthews. A recent screed took shots at nullification and featured all of the usual absurdities, tying it in with...
Have you ever read an article that you were not sure what stance the author takes on the subject but presents both sides of the argument at once? I had the distinguished experience recently when I was reading the article titled โSheriffs, State Lawmakers Push Back on...
The state governments are now beginning in earnest to do something about the encroaching federal government. Way back in 1994 when the “Republican Revolutionโ was taking place in Congress the Republican Governors Association (RGA) โadoptedโ a sort of...
In Part 1 of this series, I explained how our federalism works and how the powers were divided between the states and our national government. The details showed that the states were superior to the federal government on the hierarchy scale and that the 10th amendment...
