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Thursday, September 16, 2021

The Case for State Nullification

2/ Democrats circle the wagons around Dem president. Then a Republican is elected. He oversteps, citing previous Dem. Republicans, forgetting what they said about the Dem president, circle the wagons. Democrats, forgetting what they said, cry foul. Executive power keeps growing.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) September 16, 2021

Conservatives can't even conserve the Constitution.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

On the 150th Anniversary of His Passing

Which was yesterday. Eternal Memory.

Monday, June 01, 2020

The Public Good and All That

This is a violation of state and tribal rights. 😠

The Trump administration’s proposed rule would limit states’ power to stop polluters from building pipelines, coal terminals and other dirty energy infrastructure. https://t.co/RKiXQSPiAa
— Food & Water Watch (@foodandwater) June 1, 2020

I do think the states need to stand up for their people in that regard, even if they are part of the political problem.

Friday, April 24, 2020

Tom Woods with Michael Boldin

10 Years of Nullification

Related:
The 10th Amendment: An Introduction
The 10th Amendment: Sovereignty of the People of the Several States

Monday, April 01, 2019

State Sovereignty

The Imaginative Conservative: The Articles of Confederation and State Sovereignty by Nathan Coleman

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

From Founding Fathers to Fire Eaters

A review by James Rutledge Roesch of the book by John Devanny

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Abbeville Institute: Nullification and Secession: Solutions or Talking Points? By James Ronald Kennedy

Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of nullification and secession despite the efforts of massed, bloody, Yankee bayonets. But is the talk about nullification and secession an… »

Thursday, April 19, 2018

States' Rights!

Zombies No More: Secession, Nullification, and the Academy by John Devanny
A review of Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Sanford Levinson, ed. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2016. The undead walk among us still, or so asserts Sanford Levinson, the editor of an… »

Thursday, March 22, 2018

States' Rights

States’ Rights by Philip Leigh

Most modern historians reject any suggestion that the South fought the Civil War over states’ rights. They insist that the only states’ rights the South cared about, “as neo-confederates are loath to admit,” was slavery.… »

Sunday, October 29, 2017

The Rights of Englishmen

Two Promising Articles from The Imaginative Conservative

The Articles of Confederation and State Sovereignty by Nathan Coleman

The Revolutionary Conservatism of Jefferson & Small Republics by Arthur J. Versluis

Friday, July 28, 2017

Madisonian Nullification

By Joe Wolverton

This article will restore necessary context to the word “nullification” as used by James Madison in an 1834 letter called “Notes on Nullification.” First, we have to put Madison’s role in the formulation of the… »

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

The Trump-Jackson-Lincoln Controversy

Trump as Historian by Ryan Walters

In a recent interview on Sirius XM, President Trump, now completely enthralled by Andrew Jackson, made a couple of interesting remarks about the War of Northern Aggression, specifically theorizing that if Andrew Jackson were President… »

Was the Civil War Necessary? by Brion McClanahan