Tenth Amendment Center

Health Care and the Fallacy of Positive Rights

16. Nov, 2009 369525 Comments2009-11-17+01%3A01%3A43Tenth+Amendment

How can taking what belongs to another person (their money, time, or effort) through legislative force be a “right”?

Featured, Health Care, Liberty

Featured, force, freedom, Positive Rights

Choosing Federalism, Choosing Freedom

13. Nov, 2009 36688 CommentsChoosing+Federalism%2C+Choosing+Freedom2009-11-13+08%3A19%3A58Tenth+Amendment

We are going to need an acute dosage of federalism to even begin ridding ourselves of the disease destroying the body of our once-great federation.

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decentralization, Featured, freedom, state Sovereignty

What Would Madison Do?

08. Nov, 2009 360735 CommentsWhat+Would+Madison+Do%3F2009-11-08+14%3A55%3A23Tenth+Amendment

In one of his final acts as president, James Madison did something almost unthinkable by modern standards: he vetoed a bill solely on Constitutional grounds.

Featured, Founding Principles

Constitutional Amendment, Featured, James Madison, veto

Traitors to the American Revolution

04. Nov, 2009 358811 CommentsTraitors+to+the+American+Revolution2009-11-05+03%3A13%3A29Tenth+Amendment

The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic, governmental tyranny…

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American Revolution, centralization, Featured, John Taylor of Caroline, Mercantilism

The Missing Patent and the Health Care Debate

01. Nov, 2009 356223 Comments2009-11-01+16%3A35%3A20Tenth+Amendment

What does the original meaning of the “patent clause” have to do with health care and the Constitution? Paul Ballonoff explains.

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Featured, Health Care, Originalism, Patent Clause

Keep it Local!

27. Oct, 2009 353225 CommentsKeep+it+Local%212009-10-27+10%3A47%3A14Tenth+Amendment

Does it not seem wrong that the mere few hundred politicians in the Federal Government have the power to control 300 million people?

Featured, Federalism

decentralization, Government, Liberty

Freedom’s Destruction through Constitutional Deconstruction

24. Oct, 2009 350117 Comments2009-10-24+07%3A10%3A00Tenth+Amendment

History proves with absolute certainty that a national government and its assuming principles were rejected by the Founders and Ratifiers

History, Ratification, state Sovereignty

They Can’t Push Us Around Forever

20. Oct, 2009 3469142 CommentsThey+Can%27t+Push+Us+Around+Forever2009-10-21+00%3A09%3A57Tenth+Amendment

The role of our American government has been blurred, bent, and breached. The rights endowed to us by our creator must be restored.

Enumerated Powers, Government, Liberty, state Sovereignty

Much-Maligned Tenthers Have a Point

19. Oct, 2009 34559 CommentsMuch-Maligned+Tenthers+Have+a+Point2009-10-19+14%3A16%3A23Tenth+Amendment

As government becomes more centralized, and states relinquish authority, the powerful redouble their efforts to make others act (and believe) like them.

Featured, Limited Government

10th Amendment, decentralization, Tenthers