They Don’t Teach This in School
The various commissars who have taken it upon themselves to ensure that no one strays from officially approved opinion — or to appropriately scold anyone who in fact does so — have become apoplectic at the return of nullification.
More On Civil Disobedience and Nullification
Without the willingness to accept punishment, one’s reliance upon civil disobedience to right a wrong perpetrated by government or other offending entity is a self-delusional contrivance.
No Longer Will We Stand Idly By
Isn’t it incredible that, despite all the historical evidence to the contrary, that anyone can still believe that the founders would’ve fought a long, cruel, bloody war just to exchange one central, overpowering government for another?
The Dumbest Guy in the World
My friends, meet the winner of today’s Dumbest Guy in the World: Alan Pyke
I Favor Nullification
Martha Dean, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Connecticut, repeated her support for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws in Monday night’s debate.
Courage, Liberty, Guns and Weed
Question: Do gun rights activists have as much courage as pot smokers?
Choose Freedom: Ignore DC
The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, and every year that date passes by with hardly a sound. Do something today to bring it back to life!
With or Without Federal “Permissionâ€
we don’t need approval from the federal government to stand up for our rights. We need to stand up for them whether they want us to or not!
A Safeguard Against Federal Abuse
In 1830, when South Carolina politicians were arguing for “nullification†of a federal tariff they viewed as unconstitutional, the elderly James Madison penned a public response.
Fertile Ground for Freedom
we must stop cowering in fear at the mere mention of federal power, as if the United States government were some omnipotent god to whom we must bow down and serve.
The Origins of Nullification
The defenders of centralized governmental power (a.k.a. tyranny) despise the Jeffersonian idea that the citizens of the states have a right to nullify what they believe to be unconstitutional federal laws.
Nullification: Individual and Collective Uses
The jury is one of the smallest, and therefore most significant, of duly constituted bodies involved in the application of laws and the mechanisms of justice.
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.
Interposition is the cousin of nullification
The two cousins of interposition and nullification stand upon the 10th Amendment as a protective defense against oppressive usurpation and attempts to end federalism.
Your Ticket to Freedom
If we continue doing the same things we’ve been doing, the march to tyranny isn’t stopping. Tom Woods’ Nullification gives us the blueprint, and NullifyNow brings us together to make it happen.
Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
Whenever the people who make up the federal government, either as individuals, as departments or as branches, exercise power not expressly delegated to them as specified in the Constitution, they are usurping the authority of either the states or the people.
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.
Beware: Confederate, Confederate, Confederate!!
Tom Woods responds to the pro-regime Lou Dubose in support of nullification, and his new book…Nullification!
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…
