Nullification: Reclaiming Consent of the Governed (The Wilson

Nullification: Reclaiming Consent of the Governed (The Wilson Files)

In this second installment of The Wilson Files, we collect some of Dr. Wilson's most sagacious writings on the topic of nullification and the unenumerated rights reserved to the several sovereign States that comprise the confederation known as the United States of America. For half a century historian Clyde Wilson has been writing about what he calls â€œour lost and stolen heritage of statesâ€™ rights.â€ As Dr. Donald Livingston, founder of the Abbeville Institute, has remarked of current devolutionary strategies, â€œClyde Wilson had been plowing the ground long before any of us came to plant.â€ Excerpts from Nullification: Reclaiming the Consent of the Governed: â€œThe cause of statesâ€™ rights is the cause of liberty; they rise or fall together. . . . We know the problems. Where should we look for solutions? . . . . Thomas Jefferson gives us the answer: our most ancient and best tradition, statesâ€™ rights: â€˜the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendenciesâ€™ . . . . Some of the Founders hoped that the division of legislative, executive, and judicial power in the general government would help. . . . these checks and balances do not work. They ceased to work a long time ago. There is no serious conflict of power among the federal branches. The acts of all of them are directed toward checking the people of the States. . . . Statesâ€™ rights are historically sound, constitutionally sound, ethically sound, and sound from the point of view of democracy. Where they fall short is simply in the realm of political will and agenda. . . . if we are to speak of curbing the central power, the States are what we have got. They exist. They are historical, political, cultural realities, the indestructible bottom line of the American system. It would be a shame if, in this world-historical time of devolution, Americans did not look back to an ancient and honourable tradition that lies readily at hand.â€
Country USA
Brand Shotwell Publishing LLC
Manufacturer Shotwell Publishing LLC
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692759769
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Shotwell Publishing LLC
Manufacturer	Shotwell Publishing LLC
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692759769
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Nullification: Reclaiming Consent of the Governed (The Wilson Files)

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