People are outraged at the unconstitutional laws pouring out of Washington…but we can stop them. Tom Woods new book “Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century” tells how the states can fight back.
Nullification, Woods explains, is the process whereby state legislatures protect their people from unconstitutional legislation out of Washington.
Under today’s constitutional law, the “Federal” (really now national) Government can do anything it wants. The speaker of the House literally laughs at the implication that it cannot. For anyone who knows history and loves liberty, this is a worrisome situation.
What to do?
Woods’s answer is to dust off the Jeffersonian tradition of nullification. Nullification lays out the argument for nullification’s constitutionality, describes historic and contemporary instances in which the doctrine has been and is being employed, and advocates that it be used more widely today. Finally, in a very useful appendix, Woods provides some of the classic nullification documents from days gone by. The appendix serves both to arm the reader with pro-nullification arguments and to illustrate the variety of circumstances to which it has been applied.
The Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty is bringing Tom Woods to Eau Claire on August 28th. There will be a book signing followed by dinner and after party at America’s Best Value Inn were Tom Woods will speak on State nullification of federal laws.
