I don’t know who Paul Zummo is, but I know he wrote this . It’s the usual arguments against nullification, as if no replies to them existed. He tries to claim, first, that James Madison, in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, wasn’t calling for nullification; he was… Read More
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And the Dumbest Guy in the World Is…
…Ian Millhiser of the hilariously misnamed ThinkProgress, who says, “The Constitution expressly states that Acts of Congress ‘shall be the supreme law of the land…anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,’ so our founding document specifically denies the states… Read More
I Reply to a “Progressive”
There is next to zero chance that my comment on this fifth-grade research paper masquerading as a critique of Martha Dean will make it through moderation, so I reproduce it here: “Almost every single sentence in this post is wrong. Your view of the Supremacy Clause is wrong, your… Read More
Connecticut AG Candidate: I Favor Nullification
Martha Dean, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Connecticut, repeated her support for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws in last night’s debate. She opened up my book Nullification and quoted from Jonathan Trumbull, the nineteenth-century Connecticut governor who declared: “Whenever our national legislature is… Read More
State Nullification
What Is It? State nullification is the idea that the states can and must refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal laws. Says Who? Says Thomas Jefferson, among other distinguished Americans. His draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 first introduced the word “nullification” into American political… Read More
Gee, I'm So Intimidated by These Experts!
Here’s Princeton’s Sean Wilentz writing about nullification. Here’s my reply , which exposes him as an uninformed propagandist. (“Uninformed” is exceedingly kind, as you’ll see.) Much more where that came from in Nullification , my forthcoming book. And below is a YouTube version of my appearance on NPR, opposite… Read More
Gee, I’m So Intimidated by These Experts!
Here’s Princeton’s Sean Wilentz writing about nullification. Here’s my reply , which exposes him as an uninformed propagandist. (“Uninformed” is exceedingly kind, as you’ll see.) Much more where that came from in Nullification , my forthcoming book. And below is a YouTube version of my appearance on NPR, opposite… Read More
Nullification!
My next book, slated for June 29 release, is called Nullification , with a subtitle to be determined. I’ll send out a notice to everyone on my newsletter list (see the right-hand column of the home page here at TomWoods.com ) when it comes out. The book… Read More