Judicial Review? No. Nullification
“Acts of congress, to be binding, must be made pursuant to the constitution; otherwise they are not laws, but a mere nullity.” -St. George Tucker “There is no danger I apprehend so much as the… »
Reforming the Southern Man
I am not from where I live, yet I have a deep fear that where I live won’t be where I live for very much longer. The god of progress bears down on our town… »
Taylor and Jefferson on Secession
One of the most enduring myths of American history centers on the “compact theory” of the Constitution. According to the standard interpretation, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Republicans invented the “theory” to challenge Federalist control… »
The Challenge of the Southern Tradition
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked, “Feel hot in heah?” A staffer replied: “Well Senator, the thermostat is set at 72 degrees, but we can make… »
Sectionalism Returns
Recently Michael S. Greve of George Mason University Law School wrote an insightful article which contends that sectionalism has reared its head again. This new sectionalism is dividing the states along the lines of economic… »
Up at the Forks of the Creek: In Search of American Populism
Editor’s note: With the rise of “populism” around the world, we should revisit the history and origins of American populism. In “Populism” we are confronted with a term that raises so many different connotations in… »
Two Aristocracies
Editor’s note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow’s Review in 1866. The author had already recognized that the deal struck between Midwestern farmers and Northeastern merchants would in short order… »
Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After Fifty Years
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I’ll Take My Stand, only three are alive: Robert Penn Warren, the poet and novelist, Lyle Lanier, a psychologist and former executive vice-president of the University of… »
Musings of a Southern Antifederalist on the Presidential Election
The one consolation of the Antifederalist persuasion is telling everyone you meet “I told you so.” Granted, this does not go down well in most circles, be they progressive, socialist, conservative, neo-conservative, constitutionalist, et al. … »
Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIV
Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive civilization.–Eric Voegelin The South is the foe to Northern industry—to our mines, our manufactures, and our commerce.–Abolitionist Theodore Parker, 1861… »
