By Matt Holdridge
Tom Woods did an interview on April 7, 2010 with Brian Wilson on 1370 AM WSPD in Toledo, Ohio regarding state nullification of federal law and the critisism of it.
As Tom writes in today’s featured article,
Over the past few years, but especially during the past several months, there has been an extraordinary revival of interest in Thomas Jefferson’s idea of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. According to Jefferson, if the federal government were to monopolize constitutional interpretation, it would of course interpret the Constitution in its own favor and consistently uncover previously unknown reservoirs of additional federal power. Only a fool would consent to such a system, thought Jefferson, and the peoples of the states were not fools.
Needless to say, nullification is nowhere to be found on the three-by-five card on which our betters have written out the range of allowable opinion, so it has been greeted with the usual hysteria from predictable quarters.
Listen to Tom’s interview with Brian here.
Also, don’t forget that you can hear Tom speak on the subject live at the C4L Iowa Regional Conference on May 14-16, 2010.