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Kevin Gutzman: Freedom vs the Courts

In this podcast, Kevin Gutzman talks about the Incorporation Doctrine and why liberty is best protected under the founders’ vision of federalism.

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Choosing Federalism, Choosing Freedom

We are going to need an acute dosage of federalism to even begin ridding ourselves of the disease destroying the body of our once-great federation.

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The Hollowing Out of American Federalism

Reviving America and restoring liberty to Americans won’t be simple because we are too far down the road to serfdom for simple unwinding and backtracking. It is not self-evidently obvious what a true Restorative Revolution would look like but the civil rights movement offers a model that may be the last best hope we have before passing a point of no return.

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Keep it Local!

Does it not seem wrong that the mere few hundred politicians in the Federal Government have the power to control 300 million people?

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Much-Maligned Tenthers Have a Point

As government becomes more centralized, and states relinquish authority, the powerful redouble their efforts to make others act (and believe) like them.

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A Note to the Huffington Post: Federalism Is Not ‘Progressive’

HuffPo’s version of the Constitution. Heads they win, tails you lose.

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United We Fall

A states’ rights movement should take the form of the secession from Washington, not from the Union, and nullification of the directives issuing from bureaucracies.

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Federalism, Freedom and the Constitution

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The Federal Government is NOT the United States

Despite being an absolute desecration of the founder’s concept of ‘United States’, the ‘Omnipotent Centralized State’ has become zeitgeist through our words, our patriotic displays and our teachings.

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Federal vs State government

After decades of broken promises, many Americans have realized that whichever party is in office, the more power held by federal officials, the less control the people have over their own lives, and the more arrogant and dangerous those far off federal officials will becom

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Decentralization for Freedom

The central government cannot manage the bloated and unwieldy empire that a century of ritualistic centralization has produced…

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