All Posts Tagged With: "Tenth Amendment"
Worker Freedom in Peril
The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) recently published its 2007 Index of Worker Freedom (IWF).The index ranks each of the 50 states on the basis of ten variables that affect the freedom of workers. “Freedom” is defined properly as the absence of interferences with individual worker choices. After explaining the ten variables used and identifying [...]
1Oct2008 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Constitution or Liberty
“Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.” We might think those words—or words to the same effect—are in the U.S. Constitution. But they are not. They are from Article II of the Articles [...]
1Jan2008 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedCapitalism and Democracy
I recently heard a prominent American politician tell how a “chill” went up his spine when he heard someone question the importance of democracy. How could anyone doubt the value of democracy? he wondered. Fortunately, he said, he soon realized that by “democracy” his (European) interlocutor really meant “capitalism.” Whew, he thought, that’s all right, [...]
1Nov2006 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 1 comment | ContinuedFederal Control of Education Needed?
The New York Times recently apologized to readers for its cavalier treatment of the facts in the Wen Ho Lee case. If that editorial failure merited an apology, the Times should be refunding readers’ money for publishing Leon Botstein’s September 19 op-ed on education. Botstein claims that local control is causing our public-school problems and [...]
1Feb2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 0 comments | ContinuedUnrestrained Appetites, Unlimited Government
The federal government was supposed to be limited to a few defined powers. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—confirms it. The federal government, of course, does not at [...]
1May1998 | Jeffrey R. Snyder | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Southern Tradition: Implications for Modern Decentralism
Mr. Woods, a founding member of the Southern League, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. This paper was delivered in June 1996 at the E.F. Schumacher Society Decentralist Conference held at Williams College in Massachusetts. The American tradition of decentralism has attracted adherents on both sides of the ideological spectrum and from [...]
1Dec1996 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | Continued-
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