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Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. Michael Bolden is our guest today. He is the founder and executive

director of the 10th Amendment Center, and he came up with

the idea for this episode. You may have heard that the acting attorney general has said things

favorable to the idea of state nullification. And he is 100% correct about this historically,

and in every other way, constitution strategically morally by the way that's why

I wrote a book called nullification back in 2010 you can grab that on amazon I'll link to it on the

show notes page tom woods.com slash 1284 if you haven't yet signed up for audible you can get my

nullification book in audible form for free through Tom Woods Audio.com.

Anyway, in particular, what Michael and I thought we would talk about today is the lost history

of Northern Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and to the fugitive slave laws

more generally, but particularly that Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and to the Fugitive Slave Laws more generally, but particularly

that Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 because they could make some kind of constitutional

argument against it despite the existence of the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution.

Well, anyway, it goes beyond the personal liberty laws that people are familiar with. There's a lot

going on here, and the language of nullification and state sovereignty was used by these people

to fight against slavery. So as usual, the story turns out to be something like the opposite

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