Tenth Amendment Center

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.

Featured, Founding Principles

Featured, Health Care, Originalism, Patent Clause

Getting the Supremacy Clause Wrong

30. Oct, 2009 35543 CommentsGetting+the+Supremacy+Clause+Wrong2009-10-30+07%3A02%3A59Michael+Boldin

by Michael Boldin
A recent article in the New York Times covered the growth of state-level resistance to a future national health care plan. For example, in 2010, voters in Arizona will have a chance to approve a state constitutional amendment that would effectively ban national health care in that state. Legislators in Florida and Michigan [...]

Constitution, Video

Health Care, Supremacy Clause, Virginia Plan

Federalism, Freedom and the Constitution

02. Oct, 2009 32684 Comments2009-10-02+07%3A41%3A36Tenth+Amendment

Constitution, Federalism, Video

decentralization, Drug War, Health Care, marriage

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

Nullification: The states have a “nuclear option,” too

13. Sep, 2009 302325 Comments2009-09-14+01%3A31%3A23Tenth+Amendment

For desperate people whose freedoms are being systematically usurped by all three federal branches and both political parties…

Featured, State Sovereignty Movement

Health Care, Nullification, state Sovereignty

Will Georgia Nullify National Health Care?

03. Sep, 2009 294818 Comments2009-09-03+19%3A49%3A52Michael+Boldin

Today, a group of Georgia State Senators announced a plan to introduce a State Constitutional Amendment “Giving Georgians the right to choose whether they want to enroll in any health insurance plan and prohibiting governments from punishing those who decide not to participate.”

Health Care, State Sovereignty Movement

Georgia Sovereignty, Health Care, Nullification

Is ObamaCare Constitutional?

18. Aug, 2009 283774 CommentsIs+ObamaCare+Constitutional%3F2009-08-19+00%3A00%3A17Tenth+Amendment

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

Constitution, Enumerated Powers, Health Care, Substantive Due Process

Making up Stuff About the Constitution

16. Aug, 2009 280811 CommentsMaking+up+Stuff+About+the+Constitution2009-08-16+14%3A16%3A24Tenth+Amendment

According to Clinton Advisor and part-time professor, Paul Begala, if it isn’t politically possible for the feds to completely take over health care now, they should at least grab as much of it as they can.

Constitution, Health Care

Health Care, Original Understanding, Preamble

Will Florida Ban National Health Care?

29. Jul, 2009 261463 Comments2009-07-30+00%3A36%3A35Michael+Boldin

On the heels of a successful state-level resistance to the 2005 Real ID Act, activists and state legislators alike are focusing their efforts on state governments as a way to resist new federal programs. The latest? Health Care.

Activism, Health Care

Florida Sovereignty, Health Care, Nullification, Real ID

Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right

22. Jul, 2009 249044 CommentsHealthcare+is+a+Good%2C+Not+a+Right2009-07-22+11%3A52%3A58Tenth+Amendment

Writes Ron Paul: “Politicians can be very good at making it sound as if healthcare will be free for everybody. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Government, Health Care

Health Care, markets, rights