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The Tenth Amendment Song · Amendment X · 1791

An original folk song and eight oil paintings, telling what the Tenth Amendment means: the powers never handed to Washington stay with the states and the people — close to home. The bridge sets the amendment's own twenty-eight words to music, so young listeners come away knowing the real thing.

Watch for James Turnbaugh, the town cooper — the neighbor in the red kerchief who walks through every scene. And keep a sharp eye out: a bald eagle is hiding somewhere in every painting.

Words, paintings, and music produced together by Folio Workshop, the small shop behind The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – A Musical — using early American literature and song to teach the founding of America.

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