While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.

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 ...

Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as proof that the Tea Party wants to take the country backwards, but Tea Party constitutionalists, for the most part ...

or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have ...