fbpx
Abbeville Institute logo

Abbeville Institute

Skip to content
  • Publications
    • The Review of Books
    • Blog
    • Clyde Wilson Library
    • Abbeville Institute Press
    • Recommended Books, Music & More
  • Video & Audio
    • Podcast
    • Audio Lectures
    • YouTube Videos
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
    • Photo Gallery
  • Purpose
  • Contact
    • Question or Comment
    • Article Submissions
  • Support
    • Shop
    • Donate
    • Endowment Fund & Planned Giving
  • Donate

John Taylor of Caroline

Judicial Review? No. Nullification

By Earl Starbuck

“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… »

  • 14th Amendment
  • Earl Starbuck
  • John Marshall
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Nullification
  • St. George Tucker
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

Reforming the Southern Man

By Rev. Benjamin Glaser

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… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Benjamin Glaser
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Wendell Berry

Taylor and Jefferson on Secession

By Brion McClanahan

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… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Federalism
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Nationalism
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

The Challenge of the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

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… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Brion McClanahan
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Tradition

Sectionalism Returns

By John Devanny

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… »

  • John Devanny
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Republican Party
  • Sectional Crisis
  • United States Constitution

Up at the Forks of the Creek: In Search of American Populism

By Clyde Wilson

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… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Populism
  • Thomas Jefferson

Two Aristocracies

By Abbeville Institute

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… »

  • Agrarianism
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Populism
  • Reconstruction
  • Thomas Jefferson

Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After Fifty Years

By Andrew Nelson Lytle

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… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Andrew N. Lytle
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History

Musings of a Southern Antifederalist on the Presidential Election

By John Devanny

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. … »

  • Agrarianism
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • John Devanny
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • United States Constitution

Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIV

By Clyde Wilson

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… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southernisms

Post navigation

← Older posts
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Featured
  • Podcast
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Slavery
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Tradition
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

Lecture Series

Choose a lecture series below.

  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • 2016 Scholars Conference: Nullification: A 21st Century Remedy
  • 2016 Summer School: The Southern Tradition and the Renewal of America
  • 2015 Summer School: The Southern Tradition
  • 2014 Summer School: The War for Southern Independence
  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
  • 2013 Summer School: Understanding the South and the Southern Tradition
  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
  • 2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s Wars
  • 2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature II
  • 2010 Scholars Conference: State Nullification Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order
  • 2010 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature
  • 2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of Reconstruction
  • 2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
  • 2007 Summer School: The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South
  • 2006 Summer School: The Southern Agrarian Tradition
  • 2005 Summer School: Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy
  • 2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861
  • 2003 Summer School: The American Decentralist Tradition
eBook Exploring Southern Tradition

Get a free gift and Abbeville Institute articles delivered to your inbox.

Timely Abbeville Instritute articles and news delivered directly to your inbox. We’ll also send you an eBook by 20 Abbeville Institute scholars as a free gift.

We hate spam. We’ll never give your email to anyone.

Support Our Mission

Help support our mission to provide quality programs that explore
the Southern tradition

Donate Today

More Ways to Support

  • Home
  • How You Can Help
  • Purpose
  • Question or Comment
  • Article Submissions
© Copyright 2012 - 2021 Abbeville Institute

Choose Your Gift

Books
DVDs