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Nullification

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Is it Time for America to Break Apart?

By Boyd Cathey

There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work at the water cooler, at home with family, after church on Sunday, with our email messages to friends and associates.… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Federalism
  • Nationalism
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • State's Rights
Patrick Henry

The Procrustean Constitution

By Walt Garlington

We have seen how Mississippi, with its campus free speech bill, totally ignored its own State constitution in favor of federal 1st Amendment arguments.  Now Texas is doing likewise in response to the San Antonio… »

  • Federalism
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution
  • Walt Garlington

The Southern Critique of Centralization

By Donald Livingston

The Southern political tradition, in practice and theory, is one of its most valuable contributions to America and the world. The one constant theme of that tradition from 1776–through Jefferson, Madison, John Taylor, St George… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • Southern Tradition

What Does the Fracturing of the American Identity Mean for the Southern Tradition?

By Donald Livingston

The Abbeville Institute conducted three conferences this year on the fracturing of American national identity and what means for the Southern tradition and the Southern people. The general public knows America is coming apart and… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

The Problem with Lawyers and the Constitution

By Suzanne Sherman

On November 10, 2018, the Abbeville Institute hosted an event called The Revival of Nullification and Secession in Dallas, TX. The purpose was to educate people on the means by which we can escape the… »

  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • Suzanne Sherman
  • Tenth Amendment
  • United States Constitution

Defusing a Second Civil War Through Peaceful Secession?

By Matthew Silber

Secession? Nullification? A second Civil War in the presently not-so United States of America? According to a historic and highly fascinating Abbeville Institute event that took place November 9 and 10, 2018 in Dallas, Texas, a number… »

  • Matthew Silber
  • Nullification
  • Secession

The Southern Political Tradition is Winning

By Brion McClanahan

Nationalist Jeff Sessions gets canned and a nullifier takes his job. This is actually an odd twist of fate. A friend of mine knows Sessions personally, and he continually expressed disappointment at Sessions’s actions as… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Matthew Whitaker
  • Nullification
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession
  • Southern Tradition

From Founding Fathers to Fire Eaters

By John Devanny

A review of From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters: The Constitutional Doctrine of States’ Rights in the Old South (Columbia, SC: Shotwell Publishing, 2018) by James Rutledge Roesch. Mr. James Rutledge Roesch is doing God’s work… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John Devanny
  • Nullification
  • Secession

A Red and Blue Coalition?

By Donald Livingston

On June 20, 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Crawford: “If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation … to a continuance in union, I have no hesitation in saying, ‘Let… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Nullification
  • Secession

Nullification and Secession: Solutions or Talking Points?

By James Ronald Kennedy

Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of nullification and secession despite the efforts of massed, bloody, Yankee bayonets. But is the talk about nullification and secession an… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • James Madison
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • Nullification
  • Secession

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  • 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
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