The Tenther movement is a pejorative term used to describe a political ideology and a political tendency in the United States which espouses that many actions of the United States government are unconstitutional.

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  • The Tenther movement is a pejorative term used to describe a political ideology and a political tendency in the United States which espouses that many actions of the United States government are unconstitutional. The movement activists invoke the states' sovereignty concept and cite the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as the basis for their legal and ideological beliefs: “ 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. ” Tenthers believe all actions and authority not specifically enumerated in the United States Constitution lie with states and citizens. They argue for a return of sovereignty to states and individuals. Outside observers draw intellectual parallels between the modern tenthers and the nineteenth century states' rights secessionists and the movement to resist Civil Rights era legal advances. Critics of the term note that the movement was so named by its opponents, who chose the name Tenther in an attempt to elicit the idea of other conspiratorial movements such as Birthers and Truthers.
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  • Political ideologies
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  • The Tenther movement is a pejorative term used to describe a political ideology and a political tendency in the United States which espouses that many actions of the United States government are unconstitutional.
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  • Tenther movement
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