The Tenth Amendment Warrior
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The federal government has only those powers the Constitution expressly grants it. The Tenth Amendment makes this explicit: 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. This is not merely a truism — it is an enforceable constitutional command, and the constitutional warrior who commands the doctrine for enforcing it possesses one of the most powerful tools in the constitutional arsenal.
The Tenth Amendment Warrior: The Complete Guide to Reserved Powers, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine, Federal Mandates, State Sovereignty, and the Constitutional Limits of Federal Power Over the States is Volume XXV of Wayne Richard Evangelista's Constitutional Law Series — the complete practitioner's guide to federalism doctrine and its application to federal overreach.
Wayne Richard Evangelista covers the full Tenth Amendment and federalism landscape: the anti-commandeering doctrine from New York v. United States through Printz v. United States to Murphy v. NCAA — the principle that the federal government cannot conscript state officers or state legislatures to implement federal policy; the Commerce Clause limits established in United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison that require actual economic activity as the basis for federal power; the Spending Clause coercion doctrine of NFIB v. Sebelius that prevents federal funding conditions from effectively compelling state policy adoption; the anti-commandeering doctrine's application to sanctuary cities and state refusal to implement federal immigration enforcement; and the full Wisconsin and Seventh Circuit federalism landscape.
For state and local government lawyers, constitutional litigators challenging federal mandates, and advocates for the constitutional principle that the federal government must stay in its lane, this is the essential practitioner's guide.
The Tenth Amendment Warrior
$69.99
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$69.99
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