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.
You’re Not Entitled To Your Own History
Progressives that promote nullification (state medical marijuana, for example) yet denounce it as a tactic, are little more than partisan frauds.
Judicial Supremacy or State Nullification?
When lawyers and judges complete law school without even reading the Constitution, instead learning from the vaunted faculty that the Constitution makes the Supreme Court the exclusive arbiter of that document, you are conditioned to believe it.
Constitutional Sheriffs Now!
The County Sheriff is elected by, for, and of the People, and is our last line of defense against an oppressive and over-reaching government and tyranny.
State Nullification vs Federal Supremacy
When a state determines a federal law is unconstitutional and they pass legislation making the federal law null and void within their state it is not rebellion…
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!
Insidious Usurpation
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
Wanted: EPA Out of Texas
Next time this EPA Administrator Al Armendari steps foot in Texas, he should be escorted to the nearest border, where he can scurry back to Washington D.C. with the message that Texas is done playing games, they’ve finally had enough
Forgotten Lessons from the Nullification Crisis
If the proposed federal mandates are so unpopular in any given state that a majority of its people support legislation or a state constitutional amendment to nullify them, that should be a clear indicator to President Obama and Congress that the governed have withdrawn their consent.
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.
Hemp for Victory!
The Founding Fathers saw good promise in hemp and some even farmed it themselves. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both grew hemp, and Benjamin Franklin owned one of America’s first paper mills that produced durable and long-lasting hemp paper
National ID and the Worst of Both Worlds
Why is the federal government so intent then on turning driver’s licenses into national or even international ID cards that merely come in 50 different state flavors? Do they really think they are fooling anyone?
Free and Total Reign Over the States?
Relying on the Supreme Court to be an impartial player in intergovernmental disputes is like relying on your ex’s Mother to be your mediator in your divorce settlement.
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…
The Problem Will Never Fix the Problem
A Call from “We the People†to All State Representatives. Put up, or get out.
Commerce, Jurisdiction and Firearms Freedom Acts
State efforts to reclaim their jurisdiction are great. But in some respects, the states are still showing signs of apprehension of, and/or undue deference to, the federal government.
Is Nullification American?
nullification by the states banding together to stand up to Washington D.C. is the only way to restore our great republic. So I ask you this question, is there anything more American than nullification?
The Will of the People, the Power of the States
It might be plausible that soon we can all confidently say, “All politics are local†and you may truly have the ability to “vote with your feet.†If the majority of a state wants it, let it be – let them say yes. If they do not, let it be – let them say nay and adopt the doctrine of nullification.
The Ivy League Hates Nullification
Thomas Woods takes down yet another power-loving “legal expert” on the true meaning and history of nullification.
Obamacare? We Should Have Seen You Coming
The only way forward is to nullify through the statehouses. If we are to pull this one out, we will have to nullify this law. There is no other option.
Health Care, Virtue, Liberty and Independence
“…If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security…” –Samuel Adams
Nullifying Federal Tyranny
Those who hope to revive a constitutional role for the States as counters to the present U.S. Empire, must hope to make the States once more into self-conscious, viable polities who have the political will to enact nullification and stand by it.
An Imperial Presidency In The Making?
The question is, Will my State raise the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag and sincerely defend my liberties? And the follow-up question is, If my State will not do it, which states will, and what will I do?
