Almost everything they do qualifies as usurpation. "All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must either be delegated or assumed. There are no other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation." #founders #constitution #10thAmendment #libertarian #thomaspaine

In his 1850 pamphlet, “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves,” Lysander Spooner gave us a strategy for how to stop unconstitutional acts: resist. But the philosophical foundation he built this on was nothing new under the sun. In fact, the famed anarchist was merely reaffirming the views of leading Founders. https://odysee.com/@TenthAmendmentCenter:6/path-092921:4

The Montana law employs a legal principle known as anti-commandeering or a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union,” as James Madison put it in Federalist #46. https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/04/04/how-montanas-2nd-amendment-protection-law-can-help-undermine-new-atf-regulations/