From Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., via LewRockwell.com: “On Independence Day weekend Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett and I appeared on Freedom Watch, Judge Napolitano’s new program on the FOX Business Network. In the first segment, the Judge and I discussed my new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, which argues that the states have the right to prevent the enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws within their borders. In the second, we were joined by Monica Crowley and Professor Randy Barnett, the latter of whom was skeptical of nullification as a valid constitutional doctrine or a plausible strategy against the growth of federal power….”
YOU CAN READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE, but what follows is the part I’m particularly interested in…and you should be too:
"Times of economic turmoil can put options on the table that might have been dismissed under other circumstances. I’m afraid the best we can hope for in the coming years is a lengthy period of economic stagnation, followed by serious social upheaval when the entitlement programs inevitably collapse. Is it so unthinkable that a few governors, anxious to preserve some kind of livable economic conditions for their people, could begin defying unfunded mandates from the federal government in the name of the prosperity of their state? A financially strapped federal government will hardly be able to stop them. What supporter of the market economy and the free society would oppose a development like this? No one, right? So why not prepare the ground for it? That’s why I decided the time was right for a book that would set forth the most persuasive historical, constitutional, and moral arguments for a once-despised remedy that may turn out to be the last functioning defense mechanism of a decaying republic."
