Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Nullification

  • Donald J. Trump’s First 70 Executive Orders

    Here. From 20 January through 18 February. Beautiful. This tsunami of common sense will swamp the Swamp Critters and drive them to blind reaction. Flailing about, they will sink deeper into the cesspool of their futile negativity, to their despair while we who are sane and reasonable sit back and enjoy the show. Can you…

  • Political Nullification

    Two short articles by Tom Woods. What is it? Answers to Objections The reflexive response of the typical leftist will be to denounce as 'racist' anyone who so much as asks what political nullification is.  In the surveillance state toward which we are drifting, or at which we have already arrived, the innocuous act of…

  • Beware the Ides of March, Vladimir

    "They are come, but not yet gone." Thus spoke the soothsayer to Julius Caesar when the dictator perpetuus said to the soothsayer that the Ides of March had come and he was still alive. Dictator perpetuus has an overly confident ring to it much like eintausendjähriges Reich.  Some history here. The Death of Caesar (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini

  • On the Nullification Front

    Here If the Left can do it, so can the Right.  "If California can ignore immigration laws and be rewarded with six extra congressmen, Oklahoma can ignore edicts to make girls compete with boys in drag in sports." The man who sent me the link did not source this quotation.

  • What is Nullification in Political Theory?

    Here is one explanation: Nullification is a fundamental part of the American political system. But what exactly does it mean? There are two definitions. One is legal. When a court strikes down a law, it literally wipes it off the books. But there is also a practical definition – to make something of no value or…