Nullification! | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom's latest book 'Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century.'

Recorded in Auburn, Alabama, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 21 July 2010.

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[KristopherRichards08]

I found mises.org today, it's like finding my long lost family.  Encourage your state governments to resist the Fed.

[RedShirtArmy]

Nullify Federal tyranny now! I'm ready.

[Thomas Jefferson]

Is Tom Woods forgetting that Jefferson wrote, in the Declaration of Independence, that it is the right of the *People* to alter or abolish their government, and elect a new one?

Here he says that they're at the mercy of their state government to serve as intermediary for them, but that they can't do anything on their own power.

That's clearly not what happened in 1787, where the People of each state seceded from the Articles of Confederation by state convention, to establish the Constitution.

[Thomas Jefferson]

He's got his own version.

[Jojo Dynamo]

@22.25 - WTF?

Does Tom NOT REMEMBER what happened when "a wall of states" TRIED to do just that?

Essentially Lincoln set precedent that the federal government can enforce its will against the states by military coercion, i.e. dictatorship.

And obviously the majority of states are even more strongly bound BY that precedent, since they have the blood on their hands.

He's living in a dream-world.

[Jojo Dynamo]

"Insanity" is defined as doing something wrong but expecting to get it right.

Here, Woods fails to assert the national sovereignty of each state, but seeks to WIELD it; of course that's impossible.

And so 2 year is as good as 200 when it comes to fail.

[Jojo Dynamo]

Check YOUR facts. State legislatures had nothing to do with the Constitution, the People OVERRULED their state governments via popularly-elected state conventions in order to choose whether to ratify the Constitution.

Essentially they nullified the Articles of Confederation, seceding from that union in order to form a new and "more perfect" union-- GET IT?

Each state thus ratified the Constitution as a sovereign nation unto itself, just like England or France- but supremely ruled by its PEOPLE.

[Jojo Dynamo]

So did Lincoln. Absolute power means never having to say you're sorry.

[Jojo Dynamo]

Nullification requires that each state is a sovereign nation.

That's the one thing that libertarians will never expressly assert; they just want to waffle about it-- and in doing so, they lose their case.

[Robert Babcock]

Obama did 'say' he would uphold the constitution and the bill of rights....did he suddenly get amnesia ??

[piecharthosen]

> 2 years ago

how goes it ?

[Jo Cai]

Guys, the State Governments DID ratify the Constitution. The People rule over the Government, but it was the State legislatures that approved of it.

Check your facts.