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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1854 Telling Biden to Pound Sand, Jefferson Style

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The story of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws goes almost completely untold in most textbooks. If a sliver of it is told, it is told only in caricature and in a completely uncomprehending way. I literally wrote the book on the subject, so in this episode I review the history and constitutionality of this important remedy.

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0:00.0

The Tom Wood Show, episode 1854.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.9

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.5

The Tom Wood Show.

0:13.4

Hey folks, Tom Woods here.

0:16.4

Well, a lot of people are unhappy with Joe Biden,

0:19.5

and I guess you could count me among them

0:21.9

with the various things he's done in the short time

0:24.3

he's been in office so far.

0:26.3

And we have seen some movements in some states

0:31.6

to push back against Washington DC.

0:35.0

So we are returning to a theme that was more,

0:39.9

let's say, front and center maybe 10 years ago

0:42.8

when the idea of state nullification

0:45.3

was really starting to pick up steam again

0:47.4

after having been more or less abandoned for a long time.

0:52.2

And of course, the usual suspects demonize the idea,

0:55.3

but there's nothing wrong with it.

0:56.8

And Thomas Jefferson believed in it,

0:58.9

and it has extremely good constitutional

1:02.0

and moral and historical arguments in its favor.

1:04.2

The idea that the states have the power

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