• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

The Anti-Nullificationists Soldier On

In case you missed it, here’s the New Republic on nullification. You’ll never guess: it’s “racist” to support decentralization! Centralized political orders, on the other hand, have never, ever oppressed minorities. Ever.

Here’s another try. “Declaring federal laws unconstitutional is generally the U.S. Supreme Court’s job. When states attempt to do so it’s called nullification, which the Supreme Court has rejected and which was at issue during the Civil War.”

Once again, nothing here is not already addressed at:

NullificationFAQ.com
StateNullification.com

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Tyler

    The fact that the New Republic author referred to John Calhoun’s theory as “constitutional democracy” shows how little he understands what he’s talking about. The author doesn’t even understand it enough to call it republicanism. Democracy has nothing to do with it. Not to mention he framed Northern and Southern conflict as a conflict between “whether the United States is to be a liberal society, offering
    civil rights and possibly even political rights to all persons by virtue
    of their being human, or a merely republican society, offering
    procedural equality only to a handful of elite players.” This is a gross distortion of the conflict leading up to the Civil War, and generally false. http://principledliberty.blogspot.com/

  • Michael Mills

    Neo-Confederate!!! Brains….

  • Jeremy

    Bob Murphy might just chase you down… :P

  • dennis

    I would just ask them why they advocate the centralist tactics of those who pushed the Fugitive Slave Laws. I mean what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, right?

  • Michael Mills

    Brains…

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