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

Virginia Health Care Freedom

14. Nov, 2009 368210 CommentsVirginia+Health+Care+Freedom2009-11-14+08%3A22%3A45Tenth+Amendment

The Campaign for Liberty has stepped to the plate big time in Virginia, getting out ahead of the feds and finding a sponsor for the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act, to be introduced in 2010.

Health Care, State Sovereignty Movement

Health Care Freedom, Virginia Sovereignty

Nancy, Are You Serious?

05. Nov, 2009 359325 CommentsNancy%2C+Are+You+Serious%3F2009-11-05+15%3A16%3A13Tenth+Amendment

Recently, the U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, responding to a reporter’s question of whether the Constitution gave Congress the authority to enact individual health insurance mandate, kept repeating, “Are you serious?”

Constitution, Health Care

commerce-clause, nancy-pelosi, Regulation, Rob Natelson

The Welfare State Corrupts Absolutely

03. Nov, 2009 35689 CommentsThe+Welfare+State+Corrupts+Absolutely2009-11-03+16%3A15%3A06Tenth+Amendment

Let’s begin at the beginning. Medical care is not a free good found in nature. Of course, no one really thinks it is. But that doesn’t keep most people from wanting to pretend otherwise, and the current institutional setting makes that possible.

Government, Health Care

rights, welfare-state

Obamacare: Another Assault on Federalism

19. Oct, 2009 345816 Comments2009-10-19+16%3A21%3A38Tenth+Amendment

The astute constitutional student will recognize that there is no authority whatsoever under Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution (the part of the Constitution which outlines the powers of the federal government) to create or administer a health care system.

Enumerated Powers, Health Care

Federalism, Obamacare, state Sovereignty

There is no “National” Health Care System

06. Oct, 2009 332727 Comments2009-10-06+10%3A27%3A45Tenth+Amendment

There is all this talk of the “Nation’s” health care system; however, I fail to find where health care is a “national” object. There is nothing whatsoever in the Constitution suggesting it is among the certain enumerated objects of the “Federal” government

Enumerated Powers, Health Care

national-health-care, state Sovereignty

Nancy Pelosi: Wrong on Health Care

23. Sep, 2009 30972 CommentsNancy+Pelosi%3A+Wrong+on+Health+Care2009-09-23+11%3A34%3A34Tenth+Amendment

Constitution, Health Care, Video

commerce-clause, Health Care, nancy-pelosi

Pelosi’s Misleading Statement on the Constitutionality of Government Health Care

17. Sep, 2009 306143 Comments2009-09-17+16%3A39%3A26Tenth+Amendment

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has issued a press release in which she purports to rebut those of us who have expressed doubts about the constitutionality of some health care reform plans. Her claims are dubious at best.

Constitution, Health Care

commerce-clause, Constitution, nancy-pelosi, national-health-care