“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The following article was written by James R. Rogers and originally published on the Library of Law and Liberty website. Rumblings of secession talk in California, as in Texas a few years back, raises the question of how, if ever, a state might secede from the Union...
by Josh Eboch Over the course of American history, there has been no greater conflict of visions than that between Thomas Jefferson’s voluntary republic, founded on the natural right of peaceful secession, and Abraham Lincoln’s permanent empire, founded on...
One thing that consistently vexes me is the amount of time the modern statists, particularly on the Left, spend labeling the idea of decentralization and secession as “kooky.” The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 – if they have read them or know...
by Jack Hunter When Texas Gov. Rick Perry said last month that his state had the right to secede from the United States, liberals scoffed, laughing at the mere suggestion. When polls showed that one third of Texans believed in the right of secession, one liberal...
by Clifford F. Thies, Mises.org Can states secede? There are three levels on which this question can be answered: the inalienable right of secession, the international law of secession, and the US law of secession.All three say yes. The Inalienable Right of Secession...
by William Buppert, LewRockwell.com “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi All the mainstream news outlets are laughing at the secession sentiment across the nation, so brace yourself....
