Archibald Maclaine and Nullification
When Congress makes a law beyond the Constitution, we should disregard it, and "punish them for the attempt."
When Congress makes a law beyond the Constitution, we should disregard it, and "punish them for the attempt."
"The power which the states gave to the central government, they can take back. They can even nullify!"
"In my opinion, calls for "teeth" are more testosterone than fact."
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the American colonists’ protest against the Stamp Act and how their actions effectively nullified it. We’ve seen a lot of protests across America over the last few years, most recently waves of unrest in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Protestors garnered…
In Texas, legislators have already filed several bills for the 2017 legislative session that would effectively nullify some federal actions. Unsurprisingly, a federal supremacist journalist doesn’t like that, so he trotted out the tired old racism trope. To his credit, in his article headlined Texas’ anti-federal bills echo defiance of the Jim Crow South, threaten…
Tom Woods literally wrote the book on Nullification. This video is a short clip of the keynote speech he gave at the TAC's 2011 nullification conference in Philadelphia.
Prohibition failed because it was unenforceable
Prohibition failed because it was unenforceable
A lot of the history you learned in school is just flat-out wrong. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I take apart one bad historian on nullification and explain why you need to rethink all of the history you think you know. Don Jeffries calls them “court historians,” – establishment academics and scholars…
The Liberty Essays: Restoring a Lost American Principle by Pat McGeehan and Ashely Stinnett is a comprehensive reintroduction of traditional American cultural values and a call for reform among the American faithful. The book covers a variety of topics, but what sets it apart is its direct appeal to American Christians. Both writers hail from…