In the Tenth Amendment, the Constitution also recognizes the powers of the state governments. Traditionally, these included the “police powers” of health, education, and welfare. So many ...

The words of the Tenth Amendment are unambiguous: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, ...

The words of the Constitution do not change whether they are being applied to immigration or same-sex marriage, or whether the statute is from California, Massachusetts or Arizona. The 10th ...

It was former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum who got the last word on this area of the states' rights debate. "This is the 10th Amendment run amok," he said, saying that the federal government ...

Two years ago, when the Supreme Court first considered Carol Bond's case, it unanimously ruled that she had a right to challenge her prosecution as a violation of the 10th Amendment.

Not surprisingly, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released last Friday revealed that 56 percent of Americans think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an ...

Adler writes: The framers of the 10th Amendment, in other words, had added the provision as an extra precaution to allay concerns that the national government might seek to exercise ...

With several governors giving serious consideration to refusing the federal stimulus package it has become apparent that individual states are preparing to challenge the federal government based on ...

The 10th Amendment application to circumstances such as these was limited and defined long ago, in large part due to the development in the US of a national economy with businesses and business ...

Pity poor James Madison. He didn’t even want the 10th Amendment included in the Bill of Rights. He believed it was redundant overkill. But to please his colleagues, who were still reeling from ...

The organization played a key role in promoting President Bush's crime-control initiative, Project Safe Neighborhoods, which undermines the 10th Amendment in the hopes of saving the Second.