To: jonestown
Maybe, but when you examine other countries where one group has a veto power and continually threatens to break up the country or actually does split off they doesn't look like any improvement over what we have now.
Had the Anti-Federalists, nullifiers, or secessionists gotten their way, after some years we might look more like one of those unfortunate "failed states" in the poorer parts of the earth. That's something Woods and his fellow Rockwellites don't consider.
I'd agree that government can be a great enemy of human freedom. But I'd think more of such critics if they addressed the problems of countries that didn't succeed in establishing or maintaining the basics of government. They're not Utopias.
51 posted on
01/13/2005 5:36:47 PM PST by
x
To: x
Nothing in the nullification concept would lead to secession, unless the feds abused their Constitutional powers to enforce laws that were under dispute in the Courts.
For instance, say that Congress passed a new prohibitive 'assault weapons' bill, and Alaska refused to enforce it, or allow the Feds to enforce it within the State.
Would, -- or could, -- the Feds invade Alaska, & jail them all? I'd bet not, just as millions of other RKBA's supporters would.
Massive civil disobedience works.
In time Alaska would win in court, as the 2nd is quite clear in its intent.
53 posted on
01/13/2005 6:42:32 PM PST by
jonestown
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