Review Posts Chaining Down Leviathan A review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 (Abbeville Institute Press,…Dave BennerAugust 10, 2021
Blog Is it Time for America to Break Apart? There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Blog The Crisis of the Electoral College A decisive moment is coming for the peoples of the States, especially for those who…Walt GarlingtonApril 10, 2019
Blog The Latest 18th Century Fake News The "fake news" pejorative has become commonplace in modern public discourse, so much so that…Brion McClanahanApril 27, 2017
Review Posts A Question of Sovereignty Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…Ryan WaltersApril 4, 2017
Blog A State of Mind On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Second…John MarquardtJanuary 5, 2017
Blog Why the Electoral College? For the second time in the last 16 years it seems that we have a…Ryan WaltersNovember 18, 2016
Blog The Compact Fact Mainstream historians are both an incestuous and snarky bunch. They latch on to trends--fads really--and…Brion McClanahanAugust 4, 2016
Review Posts The Confederacy’s Rule of Law As Southern States seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America,…Marshall DeRosaApril 19, 2016
Blog The Sovereign States This essay is the introduction to Mr. Kilpatrick's The Sovereign States (Regnery, 1957). AMONG the…James J. KilpatrickApril 8, 2016
Blog Jefferson Was Right I am writing in response to the recently posted piece at the Minneapolis Star Tribune,…Dave BennerDecember 14, 2015
Blog Catalonia and the Southern Tradition Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain. This is a remarkable development in modern…Brion McClanahanNovember 16, 2015
Review Posts Sovereignty The reader has perceived that the question concerning state powers, is condensed in the word…John Taylor of CarolineNovember 10, 2015
Review Posts John C. Calhoun and “State’s Rights” The following is an abridged version of a chapter which will appear in the…James Rutledge RoeschAugust 25, 2015
Review Posts The Danger to Governments, Founded on Written Constitutions, of Being Gradually Revolutionized by the Construction Placed on the Provisions of the Constitution by Those Who Administer the Governments This may be done by enlarging and extending the powers conferred by a liberal construction,…Oran Milo RobertsJuly 14, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What This Country Needs In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
Review Posts Abel P. Upshur This essay is published in honor of Abel P. Upshur's birthday, June 17, 1790. Today,…James Rutledge RoeschJune 17, 2015
Blog “Hang the Usurpers” On November 21, 1793, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill titled “An Act…Marshall DeRosaJune 15, 2015
Review Posts Judge Story’s Position On The So-Called General Welfare Clause This speech was delivered before the annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association at Tybee…Henry St. George Tucker IIIJune 12, 2015
Review Posts The Old and the New South Delivered as the commencement address for South Carolina College, 1887. What theme is most fitting…John Randolph TuckerJune 11, 2015
Review Posts A Discourse on the Genius of the Federative System of the United States This speech was given to the Young Men's Society of Lynchburg, August 26, 1838. I…Nathaniel Beverley TuckerJune 10, 2015
Blog The Tuckers of Virginia If any American today were to listen to the nationalists in charge of either the…Brion McClanahanJune 8, 2015
Blog “United States ‘History’ as the Yankee Makes and Takes It” John Cussons had enough. It was 1897, and for thirty-two years he had watched as…Brion McClanahanMarch 13, 2015
Blog The Political Wisdom of John Taylor of Caroline In honor of John Taylor's birthday, December 19. From Tyranny Unmasked: “The rival remedy for our…W. Kirk WoodDecember 19, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor and Construction States’ rights may have been the defining force in Antebellum America, but modern, mainstream historians…James Rutledge RoeschDecember 19, 2014
Blog Nathaniel Macon and the Origin of States’ Rights Conservatism This essay was first published at Unz Review on November 23, 2014. Back in 1975…Boyd CatheyDecember 17, 2014
Review Posts An Upper South Perspective on the Christian Sabbath and Civil Liberty, 1825-1837 Among the various moral reform and benevolence movements in the Jacksonian Era such as temperance,…Forrest L. MarionNovember 27, 2014
Blog We Need No Declaration of Independence Many current Americans, indeed perhaps most, regard the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861…Brion McClanahanOctober 8, 2014
Review Posts “The Sun, of the Southern States Would Set, Never to Rise Again.” It is a strange fact of modern American culture that when looking at famous people…Carl JonesOctober 6, 2014
Review Posts A National or Federal Government Part IV of a four part series. Part I, Part II, Part III. I come…Spencer RoaneSeptember 15, 2014
Review Posts On Implied Powers and the Bank of the United States Part III of a Four Part Series by the Legal Scholar Spencer Roane written in…Spencer RoaneSeptember 8, 2014
Blog State’s Rights Did Not Cause the War “The Civil War was fought over slavery.” If you want verification of this “known” fact,…James Ronald KennedySeptember 2, 2014
Review Posts On Granted Powers To the Editor of the Enquirer: According to the regular course of legal proceedings I…Spencer RoaneSeptember 1, 2014
Review Posts Rights of the States and of the People This is Part I of four letters that originally appeared in the Richmond Enquirer in…Spencer RoaneAugust 21, 2014
Blog The Dix Note and Southern Freedom While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
Review Posts Slavery and State’s Rights Speech of Hon. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, July 31, 1894…Joseph WheelerJune 27, 2014
Review Posts The Doctrine of State’s Rights This piece originally appeared in the North American Review, February 1890. To DO justice to…Jefferson DavisJune 6, 2014
Review Posts A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part III Part III from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…H. A. Scott TraskMay 13, 2014
Review Posts A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part II Part II from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…H. A. Scott TraskMay 6, 2014
Review Posts A Bostonian on the Causes of the War, Part I Part I from a section of Dr. Scott Trask's work in progress, Copperheads and Conservatives.…H. A. Scott TraskMay 3, 2014
Media Posts A Plea for the Real Union This lecture was delivered at the 1995 Ludvig von Mises seminar "Secession, State, and Economy"…Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2014
Media Posts State’s Rights vs. National Wrongs This lecture was delivered at the 2011 Ludvig von Mises Scholar's Conference in Auburn, AL.…Marshall DeRosaApril 8, 2014
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