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Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers

Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers

That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal's centerpiece - the answer that saved ratification - was the Tenth Amendment. Understanding this forgotten debate reveals how the entire ...
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Consolidation: George Mason's Core Anti-Federalist Warning

Consolidation: George Mason’s Core Anti-Federalist Warning

Mason’s primary objection? Consolidation - the fundamental shift from a union of sovereign states (a confederation) to a centralized national government. This, he warned, was a rejection of the principles ...
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True Loyalty vs Sedition and Treason

True Loyalty vs Sedition and Treason

Decades before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams understood the foundation of what became the American Revolution. It was a complete rejection of the ancient mode of humanity - allegiance ...
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The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs

The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs

The President reads Congress's delegation of authority correctly, but Congress's delegation goes beyond that permitted in the Constitution ...
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What Really Makes a "Land of the Free"

What Really Makes a “Land of the Free”

In his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson defined a true “land of the free.” In doing so, he exposed the trap governments use to establish tyranny, and ...
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A Gift to be Thankful For: Our Natural Rights Foundation

A Gift to be Thankful For: Our Natural Rights Foundation

The Founders left us something extraordinary. Not just a country. Not just a Constitution. They handed down a complete understanding of natural rights and the law of nature - principles ...
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Constitution 101

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

 The Tenth Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the ...
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The Supremacy Clause

The Supremacy Clause

 The Supremacy Clause This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and ...
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Nullification

Nullification

Nullification Any act or set of acts which results in a particular federal law or program being rendered null and ...
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The Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause

 The Commerce Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and ...
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Necessary and Proper Clause

Necessary and Proper Clause

 Necessary and Proper Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for ...
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General Welfare Clause

General Welfare Clause

 General Welfare Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the ...
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STATE OF THE NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT

Step-by-step. Inch-by-inch. Brick-by-brick. That’s how we build a strong foundation for the Constitution and liberty. This report tells the current story of our efforts.

We like to think of it as a prospectus, of sorts – an “investor’s guide” to our work here the Tenth Amendment Center.

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From the Blog

  • It Didn’t Say Go Abroad. It Said Stay Home.
    by Michael Boldin on December 17, 2025 at 7:13 pm

    Most who talk about the Monroe Doctrine hope you’ve never read it. In this episode, we go right to the source, James Monroe’s message to congress on Dec 2, 1823. Understanding his exact words, placing them alongside […]

  • Unpacking the Presidential Appointments Lawsuit
    by Rob Natelson on December 17, 2025 at 6:03 pm

    For the Supreme Court to decide in favor of the president, it probably would have to overrule Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935) The post Unpacking the Presidential Appointments Lawsuit appeared first on […]

  • Fear is the Foundation of Government Power
    by Mike Maharrey on December 12, 2025 at 9:38 pm

    Fear is intimidating and paralyzing. Government people know this. That’s why they are constantly fanning the flames of fear. But the reality is, most of the scary things government tells us about are overblown or […]

  • Consolidation: The Liberty Killer
    by Mike Maharrey on December 11, 2025 at 1:36 am

    The path to liberty, as they told us over and over, runs through decentralization. We need to devolve power away from Washington, D.C., and back into the hands of the states and the people where it belongs. The post […]

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Thomas Jefferson: Foundation

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people”

James Madison: Few and Defined

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Theophilus Parsons: Usurpation

An act of usurpation is not law and any man may be justified in its resistance.

Patrick Henry: Primary Object

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object.

Mercy Otis Warren: Servitude

We have seen in all ages the many become the slaves of the few; preferring the wretched tranquillity of inglorious ease, they patiently yield to despotic masters, until awakened by multiplied wrongs to the feelings of human nature

Oliver Ellsworth: Void

If they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize, it is void.

Thomas Paine: War Taxes

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Samuel Adams: Taxation

The supreme power cannot Justly take from any man, any part of his property without his consent, in person or by his Representative.

St. George Tucker: Usurpation

Every extension of the administrative authority beyond its just constitutional limits, is absolutely an act of usurpation.

Rufus King: Judges

The judges must interpret the Laws, they ought not to be legislators.

Patrick Henry: Sword and Purse

Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.

 

We work to educate people on the original, legal meaning of the Constitution as drafted by the Founders and approved by the People of the Several States.

We also work to activate people to support a 10th Amendment strategy advised by James Madison, a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the union” as an effective method to reject, resist and nullify unconstitutional federal acts.