Tenth Amendment Center

Sam Adams, on the anniversary of his birthday, wisdom on state sovereignty.

My original motivation in this effort was not to promote partisan politics. It was not an emotional effort to “strike a blow for freedom”, nor was it a revengeful effort to put the Federal Government “in its place”. It was and still is a matter of SURVIVAL.

As Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky resolutions of 1798 – the people of this country are not united on a principle of unlimited submission to their general government.

The Sovereigns of each State have never ceded to the Federal government any power not granted to it by the US Constitution

The very recent revival of the Tenth Amendment on both popular and political landscapes has underscored the ever-present demarcation between liberty and statism. It has also brought to light an interesting demarcation within the group of liberty-minded anti-statists.

by Brian McCandliss, LewRockwell.com
A defining – but so far unasked – question regarding the Civil War is the political status of the states: specifically, was the “United States of America” indeed, as our popular Pledge of Allegiance claims, “one nation, indivisible?” Or was it, rather, a union of sovereign nations, bound only to each other [...]

Legislators in Georgia have submitted a resolution claiming sovereignty under the principles of the 10th Amendment.
Here’s the “first reader” summary:
A RESOLUTION claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; and for other purposes.

by Neal Ross
In 1922, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
Most of America still is under the belief that we are a free and independent people. They couldn’t be [...]

by Robert Romano, Americans for Limited Government
Often, talk of the nation’s founding principles is discarded as an irrelevancy in public discourse. But in truth they are more salient than ever as power in Washington grows to untold heights. And those who still value liberty must take note of this unprecedented rise and take action if [...]