Tenth Amendment Center Blog

No deal. That’s pretty much how North Carolina patriots responded to British Major General Henry Clinton’s proclamation condemning what he called their “wicked rebellion” along with his o...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/no-deal-for-gun-control-north-carolina-rejects-british-offer-from-general-clinton/

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (May 6, 2024) – Last week, a Utah law putting limits on warrantless biometric surveillance went into effect. This is another advance in Utah’s step-by-step approach to pr...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/now-in-effect-utah-law-limits-warrantless-biometric-surveillance/

George Washington asked his attorney general to give his opinion on whether he felt Alexander Hamilton’s Bank Bill was constitutional. The answer was a resounding no. The post The Constitution ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/the-constitution-vs-the-national-bank-edmund-randolphs-analysis/

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (May 3, 2024) – On Wednesday, a Utah law creating a process for the state to invest in and hold precious metals in reserve accounts went into effect. This sets a foundation...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/now-in-effect-utah-law-authorizes-state-gold-and-silver-reserves/

The new law specifies that “a central bank digital currency is not specie legal tender and is not legal tender in the state,” effectively excluding CBDC from the state’s definition of money...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/now-in-effect-utah-law-excludes-cbdc-from-state-definition-of-legal-tender/

The legislation would allow farmers to sell unpasteurized cow and goat milk directly to consumers. However, the law would limit raw milk sales to an average of 500 gallons per month. The post Lou...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/louisiana-house-unanimously-passes-bill-to-legalize-limited-raw-milk-sales/

The proposed law declares, “The World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana.” The post Louisiana ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/louisiana-house-committee-passes-bill-to-end-state-cooperation-with-un-and-who/

The passage of SB297 would take another step by effectively repealing the state capital gains tax on the exchange of gold and silver. Under the proposed law, individuals selling gold or silver bu...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/alabama-senate-passes-bill-to-repeal-state-capital-gains-taxes-on-gold-and-silver/

Tracing its roots back to John Locke, the Mayflower Compact - and even earlier - the “consent of the governed” was one of the most important principles in the Declaration of Independence, and...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/john-locke-vs-lysander-spooner-consent-of-the-governed/

Titled the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the legislation would “prohibit a financial institution from requiring merchants to use a merchant category code (MCC) to distinguish a firear...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/05/to-the-governor-alabama-passes-bill-to-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

Under the proposed law, “any gold or silver coin, specie or bullion issued by any state or the United States government as legal tender shall be recognized as legal tender in the state of Louis...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/louisiana-house-committee-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender/

Under the proposed law, gold and silver would be accepted as legal tender and would be receivable in payment of all debts contracted for in the state of Missouri. The state would be required to...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/missouri-senate-passes-bill-to-treat-gold-and-silver-as-legal-tender/

In the American system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the federal government, which merely serves as thei...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/sovereignty-and-the-constitution-government-as-agent-of-the-people-of-the-states/

In his 1850 essay The Law, Bastiat railed against socialism, and argued that legitimate law isn’t just the will of politicians, but instead is based on protecting the natural rights of individu...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/the-law-an-intro-from-the-founders-to-frederic-bastiat/

The extensive tax bill includes a provision that effectively repeals state capital gains taxes on the sale of gold and silver bullion, defined as “coins, bars, ingots, notes, leaf, foil, film, ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/signed-as-law-nebraska-repeals-state-capital-gains-taxes-on-the-sale-of-gold-and-silver/

Titled the “Georgia Firearms Industry Nondiscrimination Act,” the law prohibits financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearms code that distinguishes firearms businesses from ot...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/georgia-governor-signs-law-to-prohibit-credit-card-codes-that-track-firearms-purchases/

The law makes modest reforms to the state's civil asset forfeiture process, but leaves participation in a federal program that allows state and local police to circumvent more strict state forfei...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/signed-as-law-asset-forfeiture-reformed-by-kansas-but-massive-federal-loophole-remains-mostly-open/

It prohibits any financial institution operation in the state from requiring or permitting “the assignment of a firearms code in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailer...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/tennessee-governor-signs-second-amendment-financial-privacy-act-into-law/

The proposed law would make gold and silver specie legal tender in the state, recognizing it as a medium of exchange for the payment of debts. In effect, gold and silver specie would be treated a...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/alaska-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender-in-the-state/

George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson: “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, sho...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/no-permanent-alliances-foreign-policy-of-washington-and-jefferson/

Titled the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a payment card network from requiring a New Hampshire merchant to use a “firearms code” defined as “merchant c...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/new-hampshire-committee-advances-bill-to-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

The new law prohibits a financial institution operating in Iowa from requiring or assigning a firearms code that distinguishes a firearms dealer from any other retailer. “Firearms code” is de...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/iowa-governor-signs-bill-that-prohibits-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

From Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lysander Spooner - the notion that the people should submit until they can replace enough politicians to stop the government from doing what the governme...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/the-failed-strategy-of-vote-the-bums-out-is-making-things-even-worse/

Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the bill would prohibit any financial institution operation in the state from requiring or permitting “the assignment of a firearms code...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/louisiana-senate-passes-second-amendment-financial-privacy-act/

Jefferson's chilling warnings about unchecked fiat, paper money printing proved prophetic as the U.S. plunged into its first boom-bust economic crisis in the early 19th century. The post Thomas J...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/thomas-jeffersons-prediction-of-economic-meltdown-and-its-relevance-today/

The new law will relieve some of the tax burdens on investors, and it will also eliminate one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for people to undermin...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/kentucky-repeals-sales-taxes-on-gold-and-silver-bullion/

With some of his sharpest satire and wit, Franklin told the British the top-20 ways their policies would bring their empire over the American colonies to an end. Much of it sounds pretty familiar...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/benjamin-franklins-rules-for-bringing-down-empires/

an Alaska House committee held a hearing on a bill that would empower the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. The post Alaska Hous...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/alaska-house-committee-holds-hearing-on-defend-the-guard-act/

The bill would prohibit a financial institution operating in Iowa from requiring or assigning a firearms code that distinguishes a firearms dealer from any other retailer. The post To the Governo...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/iowa-passes-bill-that-would-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

The legislation would take several steps to treat gold and silver as money in Missouri and encourage its use as such, including designating it as legal tender and eliminating the state capital ga...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/gold-and-silver-as-legal-tender-approved-by-second-missouri-house-committee/

Under the proposed law, raw milk could be sold in the state subject to the same regulations and permitting requirements as pasteurized milk. The post Rhode Island Senate Committee Holds Hearing o...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/rhode-island-senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-bill-to-legalize-raw-milk-sales-foundation-to-nullify-federal-prohibition-scheme/

86 years and a day before the "shot heard 'round the world" - the people of Boston and surrounding towns rose up and overthrew the royal governor in a dispute that started over tax resistance to ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/tax-resistance-and-the-birth-of-american-independence/

Alabama House and Senate committees passed the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, a bill that would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant c...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/alabama-committees-pass-bills-to-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

April 12, 1776 - the first official action by one of the colonies in full support of declaring independence. The Halifax Resolves were also the first example of a colony-wide assembly admitting t...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/first-for-independence-the-halifax-resolves-of-1776/

Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law that expressly excludes a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money and a "deposit account" under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/signed-by-the-governor-tennessee-law-excludes-cbdc-from-definition-of-money-and-deposit-account/

On Tuesday, a Rhode Island House committee held a hearing on the Defend the Guard Act, a bill that would require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/rhode-island-house-committee-holds-hearing-on-defend-the-guard-act/

A bill introduced in the Ohio House would take several steps to treat gold and silver as money, including requiring the state to accept gold and silver as payment, repealing the state capital gai...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/ohio-bill-would-take-steps-to-treat-gold-and-silver-as-money/

The legislation would prohibit the governor from releasing any unit or member of the New Hampshire National Guard into “active duty combat” unless specific constitutional requirements is met....

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/new-hampshire-senate-committee-holds-hearing-on-defend-the-guard-act/

Since 2011 - a combination of state laws and human action has built what is likely the most robust foundation for the advancement of gold and silver as money in the United Sates. The post Sound M...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/sound-money-success-the-utah-case-study/

Results generated by facial recognition could only be introduced as evidence in a criminal proceeding to establish probable cause or a positive identification in connection with a warrant or at a...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/to-the-governor-maryland-bill-to-put-some-limits-on-police-use-of-facial-recognition/

individuals selling gold or silver bullion, or utilizing gold and silver in a transaction, would no longer be subject to state income taxes or sales taxes on the exchange. The post Alabama Bill W...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/alabama-bill-would-repeal-state-capital-gains-taxes-on-gold-and-silver/

Enactment of this law would make Louisiana the fifth state to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. Utah led the way, reestablishing constitutional money in 2011. Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Ar...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/louisiana-senate-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender/

Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the bills would prohibit a financial institution operating in Alabama from “requiring merchants to use a merchant category code (MCC) to...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/alabama-bills-would-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

Supporting one version of an unconstitutional government program over another - because it seems to be the "least offensive" option - is not only what leading founders called a "fatal error," but...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/a-fatal-error-a-single-step-is-a-step-too-far/

Bills introduced in the Louisiana House and Senate would make gold and silver legal tender in the state, and establish state-issued gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. This would set...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/louisiana-bills-would-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender/

Yesterday, a Rhode Island House Committee held a hearing on a bill that would require a criminal conviction before proceeding with asset forfeiture under the state's Controlled Substance Act. How...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/rhode-island-committee-holds-hearing-on-bill-to-reform-asset-forfeiture-but-federal-loophole-would-remain/

Originally implemented by the IRS - gun-control advocates want to use "Merchant Category Codes" to track purchases of firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition. But the state-level 2nd Amendme...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/firearm-financial-privacy-nullification-status-report/

Maryland law already puts limits on the use of ALPRs. Law enforcement agencies can only use captured ALPR data for "the investigation, detection, or analysis of a crime or a violation of the Mary...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/to-the-governor-maryland-bill-would-place-limits-on-alpr-data-sharing/

the Tennessee House gave final approval to the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” a bill to prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/to-the-governor-tennessee-passes-second-amendment-financial-privacy-act/

For more than a decade, starting in 2013, the Utah legislature has incrementally built some of the most robust privacy protections in the country with a step-by-step approach. Over that time, Uta...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/case-study-utah-vs-the-surveillance-state/

In effect, the enactment of H3404 would limit the retention and sharing of ALPR data and help prevent it from entering into permanent federal databases. The post Massachusetts Committee Passes Bi...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/massachusetts-committee-passes-bill-to-limit-automated-license-plate-reader-data-use-and-retention/

The legislation would take several steps to treat gold and silver as money in Missouri and encourage its use as such, including designating it as legal tender and eliminating the state capital ga...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/missouri-house-committee-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender-in-the-state/

LANSING, Mich. (April 2, 2024) – A bill introduced in the Michigan House would eliminate state capital gains taxes on gold and silver bullion and investment coins. Rep. Josh Schriver introduced...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/michigan-bill-would-repeal-state-capital-gains-taxes-on-gold-and-silver/

the Tennessee House gave final approval to a bill that would expressly exclude a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money and a "deposit account" under the Uniform Commer...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/to-the-governor-tennessee-bill-to-exclude-cbdc-from-the-definition-of-money/

Responding to the Coercive Acts of 1774 - the "Intolerable Acts" - the old revolutionaries were organized, coordinated - and very strategic in their approach. We'd do well to learn what they cons...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/3-key-elements-from-the-american-revolution-for-successful-nullification-today/

Provisions in the legislation would prohibit "AI used with real-time and remote biometric identification systems used for surveillance in public spaces." This includes facial recognition systems....

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/new-hampshire-senate-passes-bill-to-would-ban-ai-facial-recognition-surveillance/

The legislation would clarify that banks, credit unions, armored car services, and accounting services are not subject to prosecution under state law for simply working with legal cannabis busine...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/04/delaware-house-passes-bill-to-facilitate-banking-for-marijuana-businesses/

Consolidation - we were warned - would guarantee a destruction of liberty. But many founders seemed to believe they could pull off a “proper” or “partial” consolidation and not get a syst...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/did-the-founders-ignore-their-own-warnings-on-consolidation/

The proposed law declares, "The World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana." The post Louisiana Sena...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/louisiana-senate-passes-bill-to-end-state-cooperation-with-un-and-who/

Under the new law, retailers can sell raw milk in the state as long as the container is clearly labeled as “unpasteurized raw milk,” and includes the name and physical address of the seller, ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/now-law-west-virginia-legalizes-retail-raw-milk-sales/

Under the proposed law, the treasurer could invest up to 7.5 percent of the state’s “idle moneys” in physical gold or silver. In effect, it would create a process for the state to hold rese...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/to-the-governor-idaho-passes-bill-to-authorize-state-gold-and-silver-reserves/

Under the proposed law, “any gold or silver coin or specie issued by any state or the United States government as legal tender shall be recognized as legal tender in the state of Louisiana.” ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/louisiana-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender/

In yet another example of the government rejecting founding principles by working to bring businesses under federal control, the DOJ and 16 state attorneys general accused Apple of violating Sect...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/bully-government-bullies-apple/

Yesterday, a Kentucky bill that bans the use of a credit card merchant code that would enable the tracking of firearm and ammunition purchases became law without a signature from Gov. Andy Beshea...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/kentucky-second-amendment-privacy-act-passed-as-law/

Yesterday, a Missouri Senate committee passed a bill to limit the impact of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), removing it from the definition of money in the state UCC, and banning the stat...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/missouri-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-take-steps-against-a-cbdc/

The legislation would prohibit a state governmental agency from accepting a payment using central bank digital currency. It would also bar all state governmental agencies from participating in an...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/to-the-governor-georgia-bill-would-take-step-against-a-potential-cbdc/

Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the new law prohibits a credit card processor operating in Wyoming from requiring the usage of or assigning a firearm or ammunition mercha...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/wyoming-governor-signs-second-amendment-financial-privacy-act-into-law/

Titled the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the bill would prohibit any financial institution operation in the state from requiring or permitting "the assignment of a firearms code in ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/tennessee-senate-passes-second-amendment-financial-privacy-act/

the Tennessee Senate unanimously passed a bill that would expressly exclude a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money in the state, creating potentially significant road...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-to-exclude-cbdc-from-the-definition-of-money/

Warning that some federalists were fakes who really wanted a totally consolidated system, Federal Farmer makes the case that too few representatives, coupled with a lack of clarity over the bound...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/force-vs-freedom-anti-federalist-federal-farmer-no-6-7/

Titled “Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” the new law prohibits any state or local agency “from implementing or enforcing any federal statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or jud...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/wyoming-governor-signs-law-prohibiting-state-enforcement-of-federal-red-flag-laws/

It’s a trap! - tacitly accepting a collectivist gun grabber view of the 2nd Amendment to oppose the Defend the Guard Act. The post The Gun Grabber Argument Against Defend the Guard first appea...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/the-gun-grabber-argument-against-defend-the-guard/

A bill signed into law by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to revise provisions regarding money transmission in the state would also take another step to reject a central bank digital currency (CBDC...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-south-dakota-takes-another-step-against-central-bank-digital-currency/

Under the new law, the state treasurer is authorized to invest up to 10 percent of certain funds in silver, gold, platinum, copper, or palladium. The post Signed as Law: Utah Authorizes State Gol...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-utah-authorizes-state-gold-and-silver-reserves/

The ban on obtaining reverse location information would prohibit a process called “geofencing.” This technique allows police to search broad geographical areas and identify every electronic d...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/minnesota-bill-would-prohibit-reverse-keyword-and-location-searches/

The legislation creates a sales and use tax exemption for precious metal bullion. The bill defines “precious metal bullion” as coins, bars, rounds, or sheets that contain at least 35 percent ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-wisconsin-repeals-sales-tax-on-gold-and-silver/

One of the most abused and misused clauses of the Constitution - and also one of the most ambiguous, even at the time of the founding - the so-called “sweeping clause.” The post Constitution ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/constitution-101-necessary-and-proper-clause/

The proposed law would ban the use of facial recognition on individuals “engaged in activity protected under the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, or the Maryland Declarati...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/maryland-house-passes-bill-to-put-some-limits-on-police-use-of-facial-recognition/

Iowa is already one of 43 states that do not levy a sales tax on gold or silver bullion. The passage of HF2626 would take another step by effectively repealing the state capital gains tax on the ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/iowa-house-passes-bill-to-remove-state-capital-gains-taxes-on-gold-and-silver/

The new law prohibits government entities, including law enforcement agencies, from obtaining biometric surveillance information without a warrant and a publicly available written policy outlinin...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-utah-puts-limits-on-warrantless-biometric-surveillance/

the New Jersey Senate unanimously passed a bill that would exempt gold and silver bullion from state sales and use taxes. Enactment of this legislation would not only relieve some of the tax burd...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/new-jersey-senate-passes-bill-to-repeal-sales-taxes-on-gold-and-silver/

The new law prohibits a “financial entity” operating in the state such as a credit card network from assigning a “firearms code” to a firearms retailer or requiring it to use one. “Fire...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-utah-prohibits-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

A bill introduced in the Minnesota House would create a process to sue police officers in state court for the deprivation of individual rights without the possibility of “qualified immunity” ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/minnesota-bill-establish-state-process-to-end-qualified-immunity/

Under the proposed law, “precious metal coins” would be legal tender in the state and recognized as a “medium of exchange for the payment of debts and taxes.” The post Tennessee Senate Co...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/tennessee-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender/

Titled the Second Amendment Privacy Act, the legislation would prohibit financial institutions from requiring or incentivizing a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/to-the-governor-kentucky-passes-bill-to-prohibit-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

Born March 16, 1751 - the “father of the Constitution” had plenty to say about the system he was so influential in creating - and how to enforce it when the government gets out of line. The p...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/hidden-gems-james-madisons-top-12-quotes-on-the-constitution/

the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would expressly exclude a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money in the state, creating potentially significant roadblocks to its ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-to-exclude-cbdc-from-state-definition-of-money/

The new law specifes that “a central bank digital currency is not specie legal tender and is not legal tender in the state,” effectively excluding CBDC from the state’s definition of money ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-utah-excludes-cbdc-from-state-definition-of-legal-tender/

SB182 would ban the use of facial recognition on individuals “engaged in activity protected under the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, or the Maryland Declaration of Right...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/maryland-senate-passes-bill-to-put-some-limits-on-police-use-of-facial-recognition/

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill into law that will prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant category code that enables the tracking of fire...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-by-the-governor-indiana-law-prohibits-credit-card-codes-to-track-firearms-purchases/

the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would clarify and expand the definition of gold and silver as legal tender in the state, and eliminate state capital gains taxes on gold and silver specie. A...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-that-would-take-additional-steps-to-treat-gold-and-silver-like-money/

This week, two Missouri House committees passed a bill to limit the impact of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), removing it from the definition of money in the state UCC, and banning the st...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/missouri-house-committees-pass-bill-to-take-steps-against-a-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc/

Racking up more wins for the constitution and liberty - the latest news from the 10th Amendment and nullification movement in the states. The post Gold, Guns, CBDC and Prohibition: Nullification ...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/gold-guns-cbdc-and-prohibition-nullification-movement-news/

The legislation would allow registered producers with a state-issued licence to sell raw milk and raw milk products directly to the consumer from the producer's farm, farmers’ market, or delive...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/minnesota-bill-would-expand-raw-milk-sales-despite-federal-prohibition-scheme-3/

The legislation would create a sales and use tax exemption for precious metal bullion. The bill defines “precious metal bullion” as coins, bars, rounds, or sheets that contain at least 35 per...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/to-the-governor-wisconsin-bill-to-repeal-sales-tax-on-gold-and-silver/

Under the proposed law, the treasurer could invest up to 7.5 percent of the state's "idle moneys" in physical gold or silver. In effect, it would create a process for the state to hold reserves o...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/idaho-senate-passes-bill-to-authorize-state-gold-and-silver-reserves/

The new law prohibits state agencies from accepting payments made with a central bank digital currency for any service, tax, license, permit, fee, information, or other amount due the governmenta...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/signed-as-law-indiana-takes-additional-steps-against-a-cbdc/

Federal Farmer warned that liberty under the constitution would depend primarily on the worst of all possible checks, “the prudence, wisdom and moderation of those who manage the affairs of gov...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/undefined-power-anti-federalist-federal-farmer-no-4-5/

Under the proposed law, retailers could sell raw milk in the state as long as the container is clearly labeled as “unpasteurized raw milk,” and includes the name and physical address of the s...

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/03/to-the-governor-west-virginia-passes-bill-to-legalize-retail-raw-milk-sales/