Tenth Amendment Center

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.

Our constitutional ignorance, coupled with the fact that we’ve become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants, has made us easy prey…

Federalism was the ideal model for improvement because it acknowledged each state as a laboratory of ideas. No state had a monopoly on good public policy. States retained autonomy over education, business, religion, over how to address healthcare or poverty.

It is time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended. Patients and their state representatives should have the authority to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis — free from federal interference.

In this first Tenth Amendment Center Podcast, Professor Rob Natelson teaches us about proper role of government in a federal system and much more…

I propose the United States of America change its name to the Federalized States of America, or better yet the Coerced States of America. We should either make this change or return to a literal reading of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

The Founders devised what was essentially a new system of government. It has come to be called federalism.

Their vision was for the United States to be a union of sovereign states as opposed to a consolidation of the states into “one nation, indivisible” – and this reality is embedded in the very word “federal.”

The Tenth Amendment is not so much about “states’ rights” as it is about an individual right to be governed locally.

While calls to reduce federal power are good, Barnett’s method has a greater chance of destroying federalism further than doing anything to achieve it