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...from Tenth Amendment Center BOISE , Idaho (March 31, 2020) – Last week, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill into law to expand a current “constitutional carry” law, and allow any U.S. citizen over 18 who can legally own a gun carry concealed in city limits without a permit. The House State Affairs Committee introduced House Bill 516 ( H516 ) in February. Under the new law, any U.S. citizen can now carry a concealed firearm without a permit within city limits in Idaho. Under the former law, people over 18 could carry a concealed weapon without a permit in most places in Idaho, but only Idaho residents could do so within city limits. Last month, the House passed H516 by a vote of 56-14 . On Wednesday, the Senate concurred with a vote of 27-5 . With Little’s signature, the law will go into effect on May 19. Since passing a law allowing permitless concealed carry outside of city limits in 2015, the Idaho legislature has loosened restrictions several times. In 2016, it got...

...from Tenth Amendment Center BOISE , Idaho (March 31, 2020) – Last week, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill into law to expand a current “constitutional carry” law, and allow any U.S. citizen over 18 who can legally own a gun carry concealed in city limits without a permit. The House State Affairs Committee introduced House Bill 516 ( H516 ) in February. Under the new law, any U.S. citizen can now carry a concealed firearm without a permit within city limits in Idaho. Under the former law, people over 18 could carry a concealed weapon without a permit in most places in Idaho, but only Idaho residents could do so within city limits. Last month, the House passed H516 by a vote of 56-14 . On Wednesday, the Senate concurred with a vote of 27-5 . With Little’s signature, the law will go into effect on May 19. Since passing a law allowing permitless concealed carry outside of city limits in 2015, the Idaho legislature has loosened restrictions several times. In 2016, it got...

...from Tenth Amendment Center “Anybody with the IQ of a house plant knew that there would be all kinds of garbage shoved into this 883 page, $2 trillion stimulus bill.” Like allowing the Fed to operate in complete secrecy. Learn more here "Anybody with the IQ of a house plant knew that there would be all kinds of garbage shoved into this 883 page, $2 trillion stimulus bill." Like allowing the Fed to operate in complete secrecy. @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/yPCJCBcg0J — TenthAmendmentCenter (@TenthAmendment) March 30, 2020 Michael Boldin March 30, 2020 at 04:03PM

...from Tenth Amendment Center Last week, Congress passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill in an effort to offset the economic impacts of the coronavirus. Most people have focused on the $1,200 checks to Americans and bailouts for industries hard-hit by the economic shutdown. But the 883-page bill does a lot more than that, including empowering the central bankers at the Federal Reserve to hand out billions of dollars to their Wall Street buddies in complete secrecy. The stimulus bill authorizes the Fed to create $454 billion out of thin air and loan it out. The provision gives the central bankers complete autonomy when it comes to deciding who gets the money. Not more than the sum of $454,000,000,000…shall be available to make loans and loan guarantees to, and other investments in, programs or facilities established by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the purpose of providing liquidity to the financial system….” The money will allow the Federal Reserve to cr...

...from Tenth Amendment Center When it came to sound economic policy, Thomas Jefferson was outspoken for decades. From opposing a central bank, to keeping debt down and rejecting paper money “as the ghost of money,” we all have plenty to learn from the Sage of Monticello. Path to Liberty: March 30, 2020 PODCAST VERSION Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Subscribe and Review on iTunes On Paper money Paper is poverty – to Edward Carrington 27 May 1788 Paper will be abused in every country – to John Wayles Eppes 6 Nov 1813 Ruined by Deluge of bank paper – to Thomas Cooper 16 Jan 1814 Spending and debt Frugal and simple – to Elbridge Gerry 26 Jan 1799 Wasting the labors of the people – to Thomas Cooper 29 Nov 1802 Discontinue our internal taxes – 2nd Inaugural 4 March 1805 Swindling futurity – to John Taylor 28 May 1816 Perpetual Debt – to Samuel Kercheval 12 July 1816 On the Central Bank Opinion on the C...

...from Tenth Amendment Center JACKSON , Miss. (March 30, 2020) – Mississippi voters will have two competing medical marijuana measures to choose from on the ballot in November, despite federal prohibition. The first measure was put on the ballot through a citizen initiative by Mississippians for Compassionate Care. Activists turned in more than 214,000 signatures to put the proposal on the ballot . The measure would allow patients suffering from 22 qualifying conditions to access medical marijuana with the recommendation of a physician. Patients would be allowed to possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis per 14-day period. With the passage of HC39 , the Mississippi legislature put the competing medical marijuana legalization measure on the ballot. It has far less detail and has more restrictions than the citizen initiative. The House passed HC39 72-49 . The Senate approved the measure 34-17 . The legislature’s passage of a competing ballot initiative is widely seen as an attempt t...

...from Tenth Amendment Center “The terrible circumstances of our French neighbours, under the plague in some places, expecting it in others, and dreading it in all, is a loud warning to us, to take all expedients and possible precautions against such a formidable calamity. We have already had, and still have, a contagion of another sort, more universal, and less merciful, than that at Marseilles: The latter has destroy’d, we are told, about sixty thousand lives; ours has done worse, it has render’d a much greater number of lives miserable, who want but the sickness to finish their calamity; either by rendering it complete, or by putting an end to them and that together. Indeed, had the alternative been offered us half a year ago, I think it would have been a symptom of wisdom in us to have chosen rather to fall by the hand of God, than by the execrable arts of stock-jobbers: That we are fallen, is a sorrowful truth, not only visible in every face which you meet, but in the destru...

...from Tenth Amendment Center If you ask somebody what constitutionally authorizes the federal government to take various actions to address the coronavirus, you generally won’t even get a direct answer. People will tell you, “This is an emergency, the government has to act.” Of course, you won’t find an “emergency clause” in the Constitution that suspends the limits on federal power whenever some politician decides to invoke it. If you press the issue, most people will jump to the general welfare clause. As one person put it, “The Constitution allows the government to pass laws for the general welfare.” Yes, there is a general welfare clause. But it’s not a blank check. it does not grant blanket authority for the federal government to do anything it decides in its infinite wisdom is for the “general welfare.” The clause is limited by the delegated powers that follow. The following excerpt from Constitution Owner’s Manual: The Real Constitution the Politicians Don’t Want You to...

...from Tenth Amendment Center “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on. -Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government for financial handouts, medical intervention, protection and sustenance. Unless we find some way to rein in the government’s power grabs, the fall-out will be epic. Everything I have warned about for years—government overreach, invasive s...

...from Tenth Amendment Center We can’t say we weren’t warned. Fear is the foundation, and politicians and bureaucrats use that fear to centralize and expand their own power. 10 timeless quotes from the Founders and old Revolutionaries Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: March 27, 2020 PODCAST VERSION Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Subscribe and Review on iTunes John Dickinson – Letter 12 farmer in PA – 1768 Samuel Adams – Speech on Aug 1 1776 John Adams – fear – thoughts on government April 1776 James Madison – real or pretended – to Jefferson may 1798 James Otis – Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761) Jefferson to Joseph C Cabell feb 2 1816 Jefferson to Madison Dec 20 1787 Washington – farewell address 1796 – usurpation John Adams – Novanglus Feb 6 1775 Abigail Adams to John Mar 31, 1776 ALTERNATE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Brighteon Watch on Bitchute Watch on BitTube Watch on Twitch....

...from Tenth Amendment Center In  Allen v. Cooper , decided Monday, the Supreme Court held unanimously (with some concurrences) that Congress lacked constitutional authority to abrogate state sovereign immunity for claims of copyright infringement.  The opinion relied heavily on the Court’s prior decision in  Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Ed. Expense Bd. v. College Savings Bank , which held that Congress lacked constitutional authority to abrogate state sovereign immunity for claims of patent infringement.  That’s notable because a number of the Justices think (or likely think)  Florida Prepaid  was wrongly decided. My view is that stare decisis, whatever its strengths in other contexts, does not (and should not) require courts to extend erroneous decisions to new circumstances.  (See  here ).  Specifically for originalists, I’ve suggested that a way to implement originalism in the face of the many nonoriginalist precedents we have is to...