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Introducing the Utah Intrastate Commerce Project

Despite decades of usurped authority, the constitutional reality is that the federal government was nowhere delegated the power to regulate intrastate commerce

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Null. Void. Of No Effect.

5 and counting. Maine, Montana, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming to consider Federal Health Care Nullification Act in 2011

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The Lone Star State’s Opportunity

Will Texas take a stand? In 2011, it’ll be the first state to consider the Federal Health Care Nullification Act.

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Reclaiming Commerce

For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything

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Nullification Movement Gains Steam: Missouri Rejects Healthcare Mandates

Today, voters in Missouri helped bring the Jeffersonian principle of Nullification one step closer to the mainstream by approving Proposition C – the Health Care Freedom Act.

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Arizonans Dare To Defy The Feds Again!

Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another very controversial law!

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A Bright Idea: Less Litigation And More Interposition!

While favorable court rulings are welcome, even Supreme Court decisions should not be accepted as legitimate by state governments if such decisions uphold “laws” that clearly would have been rejected by the Constitution’s ratifiers.

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How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Regimists try to demonize the idea of nullification, as they attempt to demonize all ideas that undermine centralized power, but that is not scaring libertarians, Tea Party people, and other dissidents. Lew Rockwell interviews Tom Woods…

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States Revolt Against the Federal Government

What is the Tenth Amendment, and why should we care? Lew Rockwell interviews Michael Boldin

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To Our State Legislators: Nullification Requires Protection of Citizens

To effectively nullify, citizens will have to be convinced that civil disobedience against Unconstitutional laws will be fully-protected. Without widespread civil disobedience, nullification might go nowhere.

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What Would Jefferson Do? Nullify Now!

Perhaps it is time to cut the federal government out of the equation altogether. While supporters of Obamacare are still pointing to Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson as guiding lights, opponents might want to point to Thomas Jefferson by revisiting his famous “nuclear option” of limiting federal power: nullification.

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