About Amend10
Amend10 is a curated, attribution-first digital library of primary-source and reference material on the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the history of American federalism — founder letters, Federalist and Anti-Federalist essays, ratification records, Supreme Court rulings, and the philosophical roots of reserved powers.
Primary-source material on federalism is scattered, often stripped of context, and hard to cite. Amend10 collects verified excerpts, indexes them by author, era, theme, and type, and models exemplary attribution — surrounding the sources with accessible original writing.
Guiding principles
- Attribution is structural. Every primary-source entry carries its source, provenance, and an outbound link. We state plainly that we do not own these works.
- The excerpt is the centerpiece. Metadata and context support the source, never the other way around.
- Two kinds, two postures. Curated excerpts point outward to their originals; original articles are published here under our own byline.
- Credible over flashy. A reference library, not a newspaper.