No Deal for Gun Control
That’s how the founders responded to the British in 1775. 2 months after Lexington and concord – and the shot heard round the world – General Thomas Gage made an …
Tenther Essentials
Few and Defined
Under the constitution, federal powers are “few and defined.” Well, that’s how founders like James Madison, Roger Sherman and James Wilson told us they’re supposed to be. View this post …
The Foundation
Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the “foundation of the Constitution,” because it tells us how to read the entire document. But he was far from alone. Even before the …
Tyrants Always Want to Track and Take your Guns
If we adopted the attitude of the founders, all guns would be undetectable to the government. If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard plenty about the new ATF regulations on …
Don’t Rely on Feds to Limit Federal Power
I know this should be obvious. But trying to get federal politicians and federal judges to limit the power of the federal government isn’t just bad strategy – it’s dangerous …
All Federal Gun Control is Unconstitutional: Past, Present and Future
Zero. That’s the number of federal gun control measures that are authorized by the Constitution. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter) The post …
The Real “America-Haters”
A lot of people on the right say we “hate America” for wanting to follow the Founders on war and foreign policy. At the end of the day, these people …
Stop Trying to Ramrod You Politics Into the Constitution
A lot of people try to ramrod their political views into the Constitution. In the process, they twist the legal meaning of the document into something that was never intended. …
We’ve Turned “Protect and Serve” Into “Command and Control”
American police have an institutional problem with violence. It flows out of the war on drugs which has led to the increasing militarization of police officers. If you keep telling …
The Founding Generation Absolutely Rejected This
Most people seem to want a king. Maybe not this king…but a king nonetheless. Just goes to show how far we’ve drifted from our founding principles. What do you call …