Tenth Amendment Center

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

If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers it will continue to grow – regardless of elections.

As more and more of the important votes are being lost at the federal level, the fight will move to the state level and the question before our legislative leadership and the Governor will be about whether or not they will allow important states’ rights legislation to go forward.

Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver’s licenses, Homeland Security Department and congressional officials said.

The compass that has guided us for 222 years, that has kept America the land of the free and the hope of the world, is the United States Constitution.

If it ain’t broke you shouldn’t fix it. But in this case – if the federal Highway Trust Fund is going broke, the best thing may be to let it stay that way and put states back in control.

An important first step will be remembering that the Constitution is more than just words. It has separated us from other countries and it is the document that makes us great.

The war on drugs is not about drugs, it is about state sovereignty. Once the federal government gets us to concede the principle that the states cannot be trusted with their own sovereignty– to do what is right –then, on principle, the federal government will gain the ability to legislate other things against our sovereignty as well.

I believe that as much power as possible should be placed in the entities that are closest to the people and I believe this also was an important principle to our founding fathers, which is why they attempted to make this concept clear in the Tenth Amendment to our country’s Constitution.