The Tenth Amendment is the foundation of the Constitution. That’s how Thomas Jefferson saw it. He said, “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people."#constitution #constitutionday #founders #thomasjefferson #10thAmendment #tenthamendment #foundingfathers #constitutionalist #history #quote #quotes #qotd #nullify #nulli

“The powers delegated to the federal government, are, in all cases, to receive the most strict construction that the instrument [Constitution] will bear, where the rights of a state or of the people, either collectively or individually, may be drawn in question.” -St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States, 1803 | Tenth Amendment Center

Constitution 101: The legal meaning doesn’t “change with the times.” That’s the system the founders called arbitrary government, a tyranny. | Tenth Amendment Center

“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.” #constitution #10thAmendment #founders #liberty | Tenth Amendment Center

Government schools don’t teach this, but the “father of the Constitution” sure did. Checks and balances aren’t just different federal branches - but the states too. | Tenth Amendment Center