What States Rights Really Mean
Is there a Constitutional remedy to federal overreach short of the extreme measures of secession or violent revolution?
Read moreIs there a Constitutional remedy to federal overreach short of the extreme measures of secession or violent revolution?
Read moreby Thomas E Woods, LewRockwell.com
In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky approved resolutions that affirmed the states’ right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue [...]