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Today in 1860, South Carolina seceded from the United States, becoming the first state to do so during Secession Winter of 1860-1861. A few days later, the state released a document explaining its reasoning, the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and...
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 Anyone who has ever participated in an online discussion forum knows that, sooner or later, all political debates are reduced to analogies of Hitler or Nazism. This self-evident fact of human existence is unofficially known as Godwin’s Law. But for...
On FreedomWatch, Andrew Napolitano and Lew Rockwell talk about the principles of Nullification, Secession and Interposition. If the federal government were trying to do something within a state that was unconstitutional, the state government could say – you have...
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...
