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Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century Hardcover – June 28, 2010

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Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives—and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say “no.” As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains, “nullification” allows states to reject unconstitutional federal laws. For many tea partiers nationwide, nullification is rapidly becoming the only way to stop an over-reaching government drunk on power. From privacy to national healthcare, Woods shows how this growing and popular movement is sweeping across America and empowering states to take action against Obama’s socialist policies and big-government agenda.
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?In clear and well-documented arguments, Tom Woods gives hope to those who wish to tame the federal monster as the Framers intended?by using the utterly lawful and historically accepted principle of Nullification. You must read this book.”
?The Honorable Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel

?Thomas Jefferson said, ?Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.’ It turns out that at least two thirds of congressional spending is absent of any constitutional authority. That means that at the very least, it is going to take the vigorous use of nullification to restore the American republic. Anyone in the Tea Party movement or elsewhere who really wants to limit government ought to start with this highly readable and informative book.”
?Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University

?This book is a must read for all who respect and cherish liberty. 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 M. Goldwater, Jr., former Member of Congress

About the Author

Thomas E. Woods Jr. is the New York Times bestselling author of Meltdown and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, among other books. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. A recipient of the Templeton Enterprise Award and the O. P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship, he is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery; First Edition (June 28, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 309 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596981490
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596981492
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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Thomas E. Woods, Jr., was educated at Harvard and Columbia University (where he received his PhD), and was honored with the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award in Vienna in 2019. Woods is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, which in turn have been translated into over a dozen languages, and his book The Church and the Market won the first prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards.

Woods has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, FOX Business, C-SPAN, and other outlets, produced his own program for EWTN, and he is the host of The Tom Woods Show. He was a creator of the self-taught, K-12 Ron Paul homeschool curriculum. He lives in central Florida with his wife and five daughters.

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Brent Mayberry
5.0 out of 5 stars Stopping the Leviathan
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I gave this book 5/5 stars not for the writing, but for the book's concept: a state's ability to declare an unconstitutional federal law null and void.

Woods cites as precedent the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and the Virginia Resolutions of 1799. These were written by the state legislatures in response to President John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts which, among other things, made it a crime to simply criticize the government.

Anyway, with that stage set, Woods expounds upon the Compact Theory of the Constitution. The United States was created by an agreement of the States, not the general population living in the Colonies. This is an important concept because when the Federal Government passes a law or claims authority and power not granted by the Constitution, who can judge?

Most of us would say the Supreme Court, but how can a branch of the Federal Government objectively rule on actions of the Federal Government? The Supreme Court is comprised of men and women hand-picked by the very people who create and execute the legislation of this country. No matter how much the Supreme Court may claim to be an objective arbiter in such matters, no one can deny that the Federal Government, aided by the Supreme Court, has overstepped its constitutional bounds.

That's where the States come in. Whenever an objective judge cannot be found to decide on matters regarding an agreement (or compact) the decision is left to the compact's original parties. In this case, the States, as the parties who agreed to form a Federal Government and grant it certain, limited powers, are the entities who have the authority to decide whether their creation, the Federal Government, has exceeded its constitutional authority. This is a no-brainer.

Woods does a great job explaining these concepts and answers critics. Read this book to get a better idea of how our Founding Fathers intended our government to work, and why the State Legislatures should redouble their efforts to resist Federal encroachment on powers reserved to the States and to the American people by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
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Andrew S. Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars I have to keep asking, what if he's right?
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2010
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How's this for an overwrought metaphor (and one I hope will not be offensive to our author)? Tom Woods is a Martin Luther, nailing truth after truth to the doors of our Civic Religion. Certainly there are few writers of his stature and visibility these days who dare to take on Received Truth about government and constitution from quite the angle, and with quite the brio, he does. Woods' latest collection of theses, "Nullification," once again raises questions politicians, teachers, newsreaders, and other acolytes of the Civic Religion told us were settled long ago. And given how short Americans' historical memory is, they were probably right. But as I have asked with regard to some of Woods' other books, "What if he's right?"

I don't see how anyone can deny the historical argument Tom Woods lays out in "Nullification" -- that at the time of the American founding and for several generations thereafter, it was widely (though not universally, by any means) held that individual American states retained the right to "interpose" themselves between their citizens and the central government in order to "nullify" (prevent the enforcement of) unconstitutional laws. Articulated most clearly in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 respectively, the principle of nullification, and the actual threat of interposition, was invoked several times by various states over subsequent years -- including, most energetically, by some states that had previously emphatically rejected the Resolutions just years before. As a newly-minted citizen of the Constitution State, I was tickled to read about the governor and legislature of Connecticut's 1809 refusal to enforce President Jefferson's act of embargo. Even more inspiring, though, was the refusal of Wisconsin's legislature and governor, across the span of several years, to surrender a citizen to the feds for prosecution on charges of violating the fugitive slave law (note to Hollywood: someone please make a movie about Joshua Glover and Sherman Booth; thank you).

The historical argument, though, is merely the foundation for the author's key point: that the United States was indeed founded -- as the name implies -- as a voluntary union of states retaining their rights and sovereignty, "not [to quote the Kentucky Resolutions] united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government." Woods argues the so-called "compact theory" of the Constitution is not only correct, but was also the clear intention and understanding of the founders, the constitutional ratification conventions ... even of centralizers like the Federalists. Understanding the compact theory, from which the power of nullification flows, is essential to a full and accurate understanding of American history and, more importantly -- to use Woods' chapter title -- "What Is (or Are) the United States, Anyway?"

Civic Religion teaches that nullification as a doctrine died with the Confederacy in 1865. Attempting to link nullification and the defense of slavery is a common slander, and one Woods decisively refutes (for one thing, as noted above, one of the most energetic applications of the doctrine was Wisconsin's refusal to allow enforcement of the *pro-slavery* Fugitive Slave Act). Federal supremacy, and of the Supreme Court in particular as the final and absolute arbiter of what the Constitution means, is so deeply ingrained in American psychological and political practice that it's hard to imagine a renascent nullification movement could ever gain serious steam in the modern U.S. But there are rumblings here and there across the "homeland," as Woods describes. From the medical marijuana movement in California and the Northwest to opposition to various elements of Obamacare, people from all over the political spectrum are looking for new ways to rein in out-of-control federal power. As the author points out several times, nothing else has worked. "If anything is going to change," he writes, "we must employ every mechanism of defense that Thomas Jefferson bequeathed to us, not just the ones that won't offend Katie Couric or the New York Times" (p. 143).

Whether in elementary school or law school, compact theory and nullification aren't taught anymore. More than "lost history," they are suppressed history: what could be more threatening to The Way Things Are than the ideas that federal power isn't absolute, that the states are more than provinces of a centralized state, and that citizens have the right -- nay, the obligation -- not to obey the unconstitutional usurpations of ambitious politicians? But what if The Way Things Are aren't The Way Things Were Meant to Be? Shouldn't we do something about it? Or to put it another way, yet again, what if he's right?
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