As Justice Joseph Story put it in his celebrated Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), “its true office is to expound the nature, and extent, and application of the ...

The new Tenth Amendment stated: “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.” ...

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article ...

Available in Article 1, Section 8, these powers allow Congress to institute taxes, coin (or print ... men and women in the United States equal under the law. While the Constitution gives ...

The Heritage Guide to the Constitution is a line-by-line analysis of the Constitution from over 100 well-known legal scholars committed to an originalist jurisprudence. Access The Heritage Guide ...