Nullification: “If you love liberty you can’t stand the federal government”

In an interview with then-Mises Institute vice-president Jeffrey Tucker, Tom Woods talks about his book Nullification and the concepts behind the political doctrine in connection with the Tenth Amendment. They also go through the history of nullification, starting with the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson respectively, in response to the…

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Perhaps I Got It Right: A Nice Endorsement for ‘Our Last Hope’

When I set out to write the moral, historical and constitutional case for nullification, I knew I had a tough task ahead of me. After all, most Americans have never heard of nullification. And the constitutional and philosophical principles nullification rest on remain alien to even well-educated Americans. My goal in writing Our Last Hope:…

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Some Thoughts on McGinnis & Rappaport’s “Originalism and the Good Constitution”

I like that McGinnis and Rappaport frame the core question of constitutional adjudication as a choice among (a) originalism, (b) a "living constitution," or, as they frequently call it, "judicial updating", or (c) judicial deference to political branches.

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Tom Pauken to Heritage (2010) Bringing America Home and the Reagan Coalition

How did America go from having the strongest economy in the world to facing our most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression? How did the Bush Administration squander the political capital that Goldwater-Reagan conservatives took more than three decades to build? What became of an American culture that once was guided by the principles of Christianity? In Bringing America Home, Tom Pauken not only explains how we lost our way, but also shows how our founding principles can help us find our way back.

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Tulsa Beacon article on Biblical scholars headlining Mid-America Prophecy Conference in Tulsa

Political unrest in the Middle East, economic turmoil in the United States and devastating natural disasters all over the world, experts on biblical prophecy will gather in Tulsa this week to try to shed some light on what could be the near future. The three-day Mid-America Bible Conference opens at 9 a.m. April 28 at the Marriott Southern Hills (1902 E. 71st St.). Conference organizer and author Phillip Goodman of Tulsa said the event features some of the most learned and trusted teachers concerning Bible prophecy in America.

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Max Keiser interviews David DeGraw about The Road Through 2012: Revolution or WWIII

In this edition of Press TV’s ‘On the Edge with Max Keiser’, Max has an interview with the journalist, David Degraw, who has just published a book named The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III. Degraw believes that the so-called global banking cartel of financial terrorists are bent on destroying global economies so that only they themselves, who he believes are only one tenth of %0.01 of the global population, prosper and everyone else suffers and remains poor. He says Americans only have two years to prevent a third world war by revolting against this one tenth of %0.01 of the population or financial terrorists as he calls them.

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Constitutional Alliance: New book and DVD – Your Body is Your ID

It has been a long time coming; the Constitutional Alliance's book and DVD are now available.  Our hope is to reach as many citizens as possible.  We went to great lengths to get input from people that knew little or nothing about our work . . . (originally posted http://constitutionalalliance.org August 30, 2010)

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