Congressional Testimony – What Is the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment? On November 16th, Foundations of Liberty Board Member, W. David Hemingway, testified before a congressional subcommittee on possible answers to states’ rights through the Re-Empowerment of the States Amendment to the Constitution. Below is the testimony presented to the committee. The several States may repeal, in […]
Category: States Rights
The need for state sovereignty to protect our freedoms
Marijuana Policy Is States’ Rights Issue
In withdrawing federal protection for transgendered students, the Trump administration paid tribute to our federalist system. “The president believes that this is a states’ rights issue,” said White House spokesman Sean Spicer, “We are a states’ rights party. The president in a lot of issues believes that these issues are states’ rights issues.” Yet, hours […]
Trump Returns Public Land to the People
Countering decades of federal public land grabs, President Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments. SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history. The administration shrank Bears […]
The Cost of Federal Regulations
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope, and cost of federal regulations, and how the U.S. regulatory burden affects American consumers, businesses, and the economy. Authored by CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., it shines a light on the large and growing “hidden tax” of America’s regulatory […]
Obama’s National Monument Land Grab
Throughout his time in office, Obama has implemented unconstitutional environmental policies by abusing his executive powers–including the Antiquities Act (which Roosevelt signed into law in 1906 to set aside public land for conservation). His actions have been largely applauded by environmentalists but criticized by some conservatives for placing too much land under federal control. Most […]
Unfunded Mandates On The States Rising Again – Forbes
Fifteen Republican Attorneys General just wrote to House and Senate leadership, concerned about agencies “failing to fully consider the effect of their regulations on States and state law.” The July 11 letter never received the media attention gotten by a different set of AGs seeking to terminate the speech and research of those who differ on climate change […]
Allegiance to Government of the Union – James Iredell
“When this government is adopted, there will be two governments to which we shall owe obedience – to the government of the Union – in certain defined cases – to our own state government in every other case.” — James Iredell
Restoring the 10th Amendment
“The onslaught of regulations and executive orders from the Obama administration has chipped away at the 10th Amendment and its division of power, putting more control in bureaucratic hands than that of the people or the states.” One of the basic responsibilities of the executive branch is to execute the law faithfully. The Obama Administration, however, […]