Tenth Amendment Center

Mike Rozeff on the 11 reasons Obama should stay out of the classroom.

Richard Epstein has, in How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution, defied the current scholarly consensus.

A major goal of our Constitution and Bill of Rights is to limit government power. National health care proposals would increase that power greatly.

An observer of history and these current events cannot help but draw strikingly similar comparisons to America’s political struggles during the early to mid-1800s, where there was a serious threat to our original form of constitutional government by the Centralists of that day.

With the nation in the midst of an economic crisis, many groups and individuals are questioning the massive spending and so-called economic stimulus bills recently passed by Congress. This includes bailouts and appropriations known as earmarks and pork-barrel spending. Since the constitutionality of federal spending is never part of the debate, we need to re-visit Congress’ power to tax and spend.

The Framers never contemplated FISA, and I cannot conceive of Jefferson, Madison, or even Hamilton condoning it.

One of the enumerated powers cited by advocates of the modern monster-state is the Commerce Power. This derives primarily from two sources…

Wrote Elbridge Gerry: “the origin of all power is in the people, and that they have an incontestible right to check the creatures of their own creation”

If asked, who has the final say in our government on the meaning of the Constitution, most people would say, the Supreme Court, but it this right?

In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central government.