Be it Resolved

My Piece on the State Role in preserving Natural Rights and the Constitution

Forgive this shameless little bit of self-promotion, but I have a new piece on the role of the states as representative of a reasonable people. Federalism can and should be employed without delay. The states have a role to publicly object to government despotism and preserve liberty, rightly understood:

In the Resolutions, the “warm attachment” to the Constitution necessitated a response to an unjust law. It was in response to the love for the Union, and its perpetuity, that the Resolutions were adopted after deliberative modification through the legislative process. It is alarming to the careless reader that these Resolutions claim “the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them [Virginia].” Further, the “certain and definite powers” of the government did not make it “the exclusive or final judge of the extent of powers delegated to itself [Kentucky].”

Read the rest at American Mind here.