I recently wrote an article in Human Events called “Secessionists and nullifiers won’t succeed,” in which I made both a historical and practical argument against secession and nullification. I also called the two ideas “unconstitutional.”
Dr. Thomas Woods, author of “Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century,” wrote an article attacking my call against secession and nullification. In it, he rejects my argument against nullification and secession and for why our Federal Union, despite its current problems, must be preserved.
Dr. Woods devotes a large part of his article to condescendingly dismissing my ideas as the product of a “New York Times” way of thinking and my alma mater, UC Davis – a curious choice, given the fact that Woods attended Columbia and Harvard, the schools that produced Barack Obama. Like many with Ivy League diplomas, Woods knows much that isn’t so.
In his article, Woods says that Thomas Jefferson once said, “Should you wish to know the meaning of the Constitution, consult the words of its friends.” So let’s consult the words of the Constitution’s friends, and remember those of its enemies.
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