Getting it Backwards: “The Nullifiers Lost in 1865”
Whenever states take action to resist federal laws, some condescending person is bound to say “This was settled in 1865. The nullifiers lost.” But they’ve got it backwards.
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Donald Trump should learn from John Tyler
Tyler faced a near coup by his cabinet and was expelled from the Whig Party for vetoing their crappy legislation. What did he do? He gladly accepted their resignations, appointed his “state’s rights” buddies to his cabinet and moved on.
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Thomas Jefferson on Creating a National Bank
the other idea of creating a National bank, I do not concur in
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“The Administration and Nullifying Vermont”
Northern states were so effective at nullifying the fugitive slave act of 1850, that they were successful even in the face of a threat to use the US military to stop them.
DetailsTrue American Whigs Opposed Unconstitutional Federal Government
One student at the recently concluded Abbeville Institute Summer School asked me to do a show on Southern Whigs.
I decided to do more than that.
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Nullifying the Fugitive Slave Act
In 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed the “Fugitive Slave Act” into law, prompting abolitionist Northern States to attack this unjust law with nullification.
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The Beginning of the American Revolution
The American Revolution didn’t start in Philadelphia, or at Lexington and Concord. Instead, as John Adams put it, the Revolution started on February 24, 1761, when James Otis, Jr., rose in Boston’s Massachusetts Town House to defend American liberty.
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The Declaration of Independence Did Not Birth a New Nation
Many people consider Independence Day the “birthday of America.” During a speech at the Oakland County, Michigan, Campaign for Liberty, historian Dave Benner unravels this myth, asserting that the Declaration did not create a new “nation,” but in fact merely asserted the independence of 13 individual political societies from Great Britain.
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What the Founders Rejected at the Convention is Important to Understand
While we’ve published a great deal about what the Founders approved at the Convention of 1787, it’s just as important to understand what was proposed but did NOT get approved.
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