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Virginia Declaration of Rights: The Legal Right to Alter or Abolish Government

Virginia Declaration of Rights: The Legal Right to Alter or Abolish Government

This wasn’t the language of a protest movement or the fine print of a petition. The Virginia Declaration of Rights didn’t ask permission. It made the right to alter or ...
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Live Free or Die: Joseph Warren Meant Every Word

Live Free or Die: Joseph Warren Meant Every Word

Despite the fact that Dr. Joseph Warren is of the greatest American war heroes in history, he’s mostly ignored today - especially his political views ...
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The Founders on What Really Makes a "Land of the Free"

The Founders on What Really Makes a “Land of the Free”

Freedom isn't about having benevolent masters. It's not about government officials who promise to be nice - or even those who actually do. It's about power itself - who has ...
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James Madison's Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights

James Madison’s Speech that Set the Stage for the Bill of Rights

On June 8 1789, the “Father of the Constitution” James Madison rose on the floor of Congress to propose a series of significant amendments, setting the stage for what would ...
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National Debt and the Destruction of Liberty

National Debt and the Destruction of Liberty

Again and again, leading voices from the founding generation warned that a government hooked on debt is a system headed for disaster ...
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The National Bank That Breached the Articles of Confederation

The National Bank That Breached the Articles of Confederation

Despite having no express authority to do so, Congress created a national bank under the Articles of Confederation by invoking an invented doctrine of “inherent sovereign authority.” ...
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Constitution 101

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

The 10th Amendment: History, Purpose and Impact

 The Tenth Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the ...
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The Supremacy Clause

The Supremacy Clause

 The Supremacy Clause This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and ...
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Nullification

Nullification

Nullification Any act or set of acts which results in a particular federal law or program being rendered null and ...
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The Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause

 The Commerce Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and ...
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Necessary and Proper Clause

Necessary and Proper Clause

 Necessary and Proper Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for ...
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General Welfare Clause

General Welfare Clause

 General Welfare Clause [The Congress shall have Power] To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the ...
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STATE OF THE NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT

Step-by-step. Inch-by-inch. Brick-by-brick. That’s how we build a strong foundation for the Constitution and liberty. This report tells the current story of our efforts.

We like to think of it as a prospectus, of sorts – an “investor’s guide” to our work here the Tenth Amendment Center.

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From the Blog

  • No Constitution Can Ever Fix This
    by Michael Boldin on June 13, 2025 at 6:13 pm

    Benjamin Franklin warned, “This can only end in despotism.” He knew that when the people themselves become corrupt, liberty doesn’t stand a chance. He wasn’t alone - founders and the great thinkers they learned […]

  • The Day Rebellion Became Law: June 12, 1776
    by Michael Boldin on June 11, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    On June 12, 1776, Virginia made rebellion law. They didn’t ask for permission - they said take it, whether government likes it or not. In this episode, we’re digging into a forgotten founding document: the Virginia […]

  • National Debt: WEAPON to Destroy Freedom Exposed
    by Michael Boldin on June 6, 2025 at 7:09 pm

    Again and again, the leading minds of the American founding warned that debt would lead to corruption, war, tyranny - and collapse. Today, that curse is bigger than ever - and it’s still growing. In this episode, […]

  • The Right to be Left Alone
    by Judge Andrew Napolitano on June 5, 2025 at 2:53 pm

    Today, the government rarely bothers to obtain a search warrant for surveillance because it is cumbersome to do so and because it is so easy to surveil folks on a massive scale without one. The post The Right to be Left […]

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Streaming live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9:30am Pacific, host Michael Boldin covers the latest news about the constitution and liberty – plus reports on nullification efforts to undermine and defeat federal programs without relying on the federal government to limit its own power.
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Thomas Jefferson: Foundation

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people”

James Madison: Few and Defined

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

Theophilus Parsons: Usurpation

An act of usurpation is not law and any man may be justified in its resistance.

Patrick Henry: Primary Object

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object.

Mercy Otis Warren: Servitude

We have seen in all ages the many become the slaves of the few; preferring the wretched tranquillity of inglorious ease, they patiently yield to despotic masters, until awakened by multiplied wrongs to the feelings of human nature

Oliver Ellsworth: Void

If they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize, it is void.

Thomas Paine: War Taxes

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Samuel Adams: Taxation

The supreme power cannot Justly take from any man, any part of his property without his consent, in person or by his Representative.

St. George Tucker: Usurpation

Every extension of the administrative authority beyond its just constitutional limits, is absolutely an act of usurpation.

Rufus King: Judges

The judges must interpret the Laws, they ought not to be legislators.

Patrick Henry: Sword and Purse

Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.

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We work to educate people on the original, legal meaning of the Constitution as drafted by the Founders and approved by the People of the Several States.

We also work to activate people to support a 10th Amendment strategy advised by James Madison, a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the union” as an effective method to reject, resist and nullify unconstitutional federal acts.