Tenth Amendment Center

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

The merest glance at America’s founding suggests that no one really wanted full-bore elective despotism…

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

The founders believed in distributed government. They expressed the idea that wherever possible, problems and disputes should be addressed locally.

Phil Russo and Jason Hoyt of TeaPartyPatriotsLive.com (660 WORL-AM: Orlando, FL), interview Michael Boldin on the 10th Amendment, the nature of rights vs privileges, enumerated and implied powers, the proper role of the federal government, and more.

One amendment has been totally ignored by our political leaders. The forgotten amendment is the tenth amendment which enumerates the rights of states and the people.

Most of the states demanded a constitutional amendment explicitly limiting the federal government to those enumerated in the Constitution. That amendment became the Tenth.

Our Constitution created a federal government with only enumerated powers. All powers not listed were reserved to the states and people.

by Sheldon Richman, Foundation for Economic Education
“Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
We might think those words—or words to the same effect—are in the U.S. Constitution. But they are not. They are from [...]

Legislators in Indiana have introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 0037:
“A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, and the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of [...]