Sic Semper Tyranus. Read John Locke, or, for that matter, Cicero, or perhaps even more relevant to today’s tyrants (Obama), read Hayek. Or reflect on Henry VIII, who used the stamp of the law to justify everything he did; but his legalisms do not morally justify the destruction he wrought to church and state. Nor do Lincoln’s. There is no denying that Webster was a great orator, but eloquence is not truth. The South was a very different place from the north, and tryanical laws which did not take that into account and were, thus, coercive, invited opposition, and yes, nullification, no less so than Locke’s insistence that men who love liberty have every right to dethrone any tyrant. In the massive flood of Yankee self-justification that dominates the media and hence the popular imagination on this issue, there’s no denying that among the chief spoils of any war is that the winner gets to write the history books and set the official interpretation of the war for posterity. And to challenge that biased but canonical interpretation is to be labeled an insurrectionist and to endure scorn and spite. So be it. Southerners are used to it. But, you would do well to look to the recent lamentable election of 2012 . . . I will personally “nullify” Obamacare in my own life even if it means I go to jail . . . and it just confirms what I’ve believed all along: Secession was a good idea in 1860, and it just might be a good idea today, the way things are going. As I said, read Hayek.
I recommend you look at the definition of “Tyrannus”.